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

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WHY should it be needed to "Form" any sort of business in order to obtain 
resources from ARIN? ARIN has a monopoly on these resources in this reason 
and it should not be a requirement to form a business entity to obtain 
those resources, especially if they are not being used for business. If 
ARIN in fact does not want to deal with individuals, it IS time to 
establish a policy to do so.

Maybe in the past all internet access involved obtaining address space 
from a commercial entity.  This is no longer the case, as almost everyone 
wants/needs internet access as much as the need for electricity.

The ONLY 100% working multihome way for reliable internet service from 2 
or more upstream providers is to obtain address space directly from ARIN. 
In theory, one should be able to tie together IPv6 connections from 
several providers, and automatically obtain a useable address on each of 
these networks. According to the RFC's, Our OS also in theory should 
detect when one or more of the providers are no longer able to reach our 
destination, and automatically route the traffic over the remaining 
connections.  However, in actual practice this does not work, especially 
with Microsoft Windows and other OS's, requiring BGP and our own address 
block to make this failover work.

The explosion of work from home households have expanded this need. If my 
family wants to have a reliable multihome internet connection, there 
should NOT be a requirement for the household to "form a business" in 
order to do so. If the connection is not reliable, every worker in the 
family is not able to work remote.

I am giving FLORIDA, USA as an example.  If you do business under your own 
name there is NO requirement for any business registration and thus there 
is no central location like Sunbiz.org where ARIN can verify that 
business, nor are such persons doing business under their own name even 
ALLOWED to register without forming another entity like a Corporation or 
LLC, and that is far from FREE.

If instead you are not actually doing business, but simply want address 
space for your household to use in a multi home internet access 
enviroment, there is no government requirements AT ALL. NO local business 
tax receipt required (Occupational License), nor any business zoning 
requirement for your location simply to obtain address space for your own 
household use.

YES, there may be an issue for ARIN with the space when the registrant 
dies.  However, just like when a business "dies" and its networking assets 
are obtained by purchase or otherwise, the resources need to be 
transferred to the heir who received the assets, or will be recovered if 
the estate or the heir fails to continue to pay ARIN the fees. In many 
cases, ARIN will be unaware of the death, as the heir will have access to 
the payment systems of ARIN as the administrator of the estate, even after 
the death of the registrant, and may just continue to pay the fees to ARIN 
and the upstream providers to keep the home network operational. Many 
people give the right to continue to do business in their name to their 
heir in their estate documents and therefore are permitted to continue 
those contracts such as with ARIN after the registrant's death.

Why such a bias against individuals having their "own" network that is 
independent of any given upstream provider? Forming a Corporation or LLC 
can be very costly.  Not only are there Hundreds in fees every year to the 
state for the right to do business, and also renting/buying a location 
where it is legal under the zoning code to conduct business.

There is also a large cost in hiring someone to be your registered agent, 
who according to the laws of FLORIDA, USA must be available for legal 
service every business day.  This cost often exceeds the state 
registration costs, as well as amy amount paid to ARIN.

In any case, if one is not actually "doing buiness", but only wants the 
ARIN resources to have a reliable domestic internet connection, all of 
those other expenses are a total waste of money.

Albert Erdmann
Network Administrator
Paradise On Line Inc.

On Mon, 14 Jul 2025, William Herrin 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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