[arin-ppml] Revised - Draft Policy ARIN-2025-1: Clarify ISP and LIR Definitions and References to Address Ambiguity in NRPM Text

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2025 at 3:40 PM Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML
<arin-ppml at arin.net> wrote:
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> I think this is the wrong approach.
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> In reality, ARIN cares about LIRs and deals with LIRs and end users. It is generally irrelevant from a policy perspective whether a given LIR is an ISP or not.
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> Therefore, IMHO, a better approach would be to simply consolidate to the LIR term and eliminate ISP from the NRPM.

This feels like deja vu all over again, as I seem
to recall that about a decade ago another
attempt of NRPM cleanup in which at least
some participants in the discussion suggested
eliminating the term ISP (and just keep LIR).