[arin-ppml] ARIN-2025-4: Resource Issuance to Natural Persons -- Request for Feedback

[David Conrad]

Bill,

As I’m sure you’re aware, there are folks who go out of their way to avoid any non-essential interaction with government services, so defining “costly/onerous” may be challenging.

However, I suspect this misses the larger point. ARIN imposes an arbitrary restriction of disallowing natural personhood for the most basic RIR service in order to ensure the registration (quoting ARIN’s CEO) "reflects that participation in Internet number registry services is participation in an inherently public activity.”  While this seems specious to me for a number of reasons, the larger question is given ARIN is a geographic monopoly (or, if you don’t like the “m”-word, does not overlap service area with any other RIR) thereby impacting _all_ potential Internet numbers resource consumers in the arbitrarily defined “North American" region, was such a restriction justified and approved as a region-wide policy rather than by organizational fiat?

As mentioned previously, historically at least (and at 3 other RIRs), the RIR’s were tasked with allocating resources to those in region who justified the operational need for those resources, not only to those who also had some form of governmental registration/approval. 

Regards,
-drc

> On Jul 14, 2025, at 11:36 AM, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM David Conrad via ARIN-PPML
> <arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
>> I thought the point of this policy was that there are jurisdictions in which
>> obtaining the necessary government organizational paperwork was costly/onerous.
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> If there are ARIN-region jurisdictions where the necessary paperwork
> for a sole proprietorship is costly or onerous, the draft's author and
> proponents have not yet identified any of them. Unless I missed a post
> somewhere?
> 
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
> 
> 
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/

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