[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-10: Inter-RIR M&A - Seeking Community Comments

Wed Jul 17 17:09:25 EDT 2019

Hi Jimmy,

The cost of doing all that has been done already for IPv4 and by other RIRs.

It is one-time development cost anyway (to adapt the changes to IPv6), so not a giant effort. And by the way, it has been done already to allow that working among RIPE and APNIC, and I believe there is plenty of cooperation among RIRs in order to share developments, engineering, knowledge and so on.

Furthermore, there is not such human resources cost as all those proceses, as every policy implementation in any RIR, become automated.

Regarding the cost of a member "leaving" ARIN membership, it is comparable to the reverse case, when a RIPE or APNIC member moves to ARIN. This is something that we need to live with, but is part of the set of services that the RIRs offer, to a global community, not just to a specific region.

Consequently, I don't think this is a valid argument to object to this proposal.

Regards,
Jordi
@jordipalet

El 17/7/19 22:17, "ARIN-PPML en nombre de Jimmy Hess" <arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net en nombre de mysidia at gmail.com> escribió:

    On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 11:37 PM Job Snijders <job at ntt.net> wrote:

    > Even if inter-RIR transfers were permitted, ARIN would still
    > operationally be responsible for all delegations under the
    > "0.6.2.ip6.arpa." zone. So, no issue there.
    [snip]

    No.... that is exactly one potential issue.    An entity wishing to move
    their networks around ought to bear costs of their moves;  the RIR
    such as ARIN should not be subsidizing an entity's choice to move
    out of region and continue to keep everything nice and convenient for
    that resource holder by incurring extra costs against the fees paid by
    other still-in-region members  to help facilitate the operations of some
    small number of  'wanting to move out'  resource holders;   This
    is not in the interests of the regional community whom its ARIN's
    mission to serve  to be in a position of continuing to provide
    a Reverse DNS service to the entity that moved out after they
    are no longer an ARIN customer,   And  "fragmenting" in this
    manner is exactly what this forces upon ARIN.

    The kind of Reverse DNS Zone that is simplest for RIRs to have
    software, systems, and process to manage -- is one where all the
    NS delegations are predictable and match up exactly with database
    entries created by customers  linked to a direct allocation or assignment.

    And the requirement to maintain additional, extra nameserver delegations
    for "transferred blocks"  means  designing, developing, or maintaining,
    systems, algorithms, and management processes which involve
    more ARIN staff time being used to operate,  and a
    greater minimum complexity  than the simplest form
    (which would meet the simpler requirements of each delegation
    maintained by an ARIN customer).

    Aside from the administrative burden that ARIN now would have to
    maintain an entirely additional set of delegations and database entries
    which are for out-of-region usage on transferred out V6 space,  and
    have processes and people to  update these entries from time to time:
    when the  end user's downstream nameserver addresses change.

    To keep such a transfer in effect and reverse DNS working properly:
    ARIN (and therefore other ARIN members) would effectively have to
    also bear an ongoing cost on behalf of the foreign registrant in perpetuity
    without compensation for the services,  because that organization will
    be cancelling their relationship with ARIN and/or no longer be paying
    any maintenance fee for that block of addresses.

    Meanwhile....  ARIN continues to have to maintain DNS servers with
    computational and bandwidth resources allocated
    to answering queries that come for the reverse DNS range of THAT block
    transferred out and maintaining a set of nameserver delegations in the
    reverse DNS zone for the "transferred out" address block in order to do so.

    And the VOLUME (total number of reverse DNS queries per day) per
    block  varies with the usage of that block,  size,  etc,
    so it is non-predictable.

    ARIN likely needs that entity as a customer while delegating reverse
    DNS to them,
    in order to be be able to charge maintenance fees to compensate ARIN for
    costs of providing the  service of answering the reverse DNS
    Nameserver  queries.

    --
    -JH
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