[arin-ppml] AC candidates

[Jay Hennigan]

On 10/26/23 16:35, Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML wrote:

> OK, but consider:
> 
> Those allocating addresses to customers at a cloud provider — Same exact
> issues.
> 
> Those allocating addresses to internal usage at a CDN — Same exact
> issues.
> 
> My point is that there is nothing unique about the inherent COI here vs. virtually
> any other class of user of ARIN services.

I disagree. Those who are in the ISP, cloud provider or CDN business are 
in the business of putting the addresses to use to benefit the Internet 
community. Number resources are something that are needed for them to do 
business.

Address brokers view number resources as a commodity to be bought, sold 
and arbitraged. They don't care about the Internet community. CIDR 
blocks could just as well be pork bellies or oil and gas futures as far 
as they are concerned. Address brokers fare better when number resources 
are scarce, as they're more valuable. The others you mentioned do better 
when the resources are plentiful.

Do we want those that personally profit by addresses being scarce in 
charge of determining ARIN policy?

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