[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2025-4: Resource Issuance to Natural Persons

[Martin Hannigan]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2025 at 05:24 David Farmer via ARIN-PPML <arin-ppml at arin.net>
wrote:

> John,
>
> In my mind, a hobbyist symbolizes a natural person, not operating a
> business in a single word. However, based on your examples, I guess it
> doesn’t do that as well as I hoped.
>
> Nevertheless, the current proposal is not sufficiently clear whether it
> intends to include natural persons not operating a business. This is
> especially problematic since current operating procedures effectively don't
> include natural persons not operating a business, and all the other items
> in the list are effectively businesses of one kind or another, as you say,
> whether incorporated or not, for profit or not. If the policy community
> wants natural persons not operating a business included as
> organizations, we need to make it clear that is our intent.
>

I support the intent of the proposal not in dispute and support being clear
as outlined above. Either hobbyists are included or not.

Easy enough eg “…including non commercial purposes.”

Thanks,

-M<

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