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<div>On Aug 8, 2012, at 10:19 PM, Steven Ryerse <<a href="mailto:SRyerse@eclipse-networks.com">SRyerse@eclipse-networks.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">What is reasonable is for you to go to your staff and have them reopen my request #20120801-X7252 and have them allocate us the /22 IP v4 block requested. Simple. You
definitely do have the power as President & CEO to do that if you decide to.</span></div>
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<div>Not quite correct, as I am obligated (and honored) to follow the policies that </div>
<div>have been adopted by the ARIN Board of Trustees. </div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Policies that originate from this community still have to be voted on and</span></div>
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<div>The particular policy language that you do not qualify under is in ARIN's </div>
<div>Number Resource Policy Manual (NRPM), Section 4.2.2.2 </div>
<div>(Initial Allocation to ISPs - Multihomed) -</div>
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<div> "When requesting a /22, demonstrate the efficient utilization of a minimum </div>
<div> contiguous or noncontiguous /23 (two /24s) from an upstream."</div>
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<div>This policy language in question was adopted by the Board of Trustees </div>
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<div><<a href="https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm_changelog.html">https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm_changelog.html</a>></div>
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<div>Actually, the Board is fairly rigorous about such changes, and follows the </div>
<div>ARIN Policy Development Process which I referenced earlier. This provides</div>
<div>that any policy changes are fully discussed by the community in open and</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">in </span><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">force is determined to be contrary to your mission, regardless of</span></div>
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Indeed. The Board of Trustees must be the judge of our performance </div>
<div>in compliance of our mission, and they adopted the policies in question.</div>
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<div>I will note this discussion to the ARIN Board of Trustees, but they are</div>
<div>quite unlikely to overturn existing policy without a compelling mandate</div>
<div>from the community.</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">allocate them to us per my request through normal channels. If that
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">request ultimately fails I will be forced to go off-channel and fulfill my </span></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">request with a Legacy block that ARIN does not have an agreement on.</span></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Unfortunately those are my only two choices. If I’m forced to go that
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">route then I will of course come back to your web site and make a request
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">Legacy addresses. Requesting that from ARIN is the right and proper thing
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">to do since I don’t want to hide anything or lie to ARIN in any way.</span></blockquote>
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As I noted earlier, we have a specified transfer policy for just such occasions,</div>
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<blockquote type="cite"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; ">or you can force us to go elsewhere. I would appreciate it if you would
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ARIN can't approve a request which is invalid per adopted policy; I actually</div>
<div>do not get any choice in this matter. I do wish you best in whatever course</div>
<div>of action you choose.</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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