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<div>On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Frank Bulk <<a href="mailto:frnkblk@iname.com">frnkblk@iname.com</a>></div>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">It seems the ARIN staff has taken a “virtualized hosts/devices/infrastructure don’t count” approach. I understand ARIN staff’s concern about potential abuse by some
folk who may spin up a bunch of virtualized servers to get some address space, and then use that address space anywhere in the world and/or in a way that wouldn’t have met the NPRM’s criteria, but it seems that ARIN’s brush is a bit too broad.</span></div>
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<div>Frank - </div>
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<div> ARIN has always verified customers in determining address need but is happy to</div>
<div> change if directed by the community. That would be a change to existing policy and </div>
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<div> Review NRPM 4.2.3 - Reassigning Address Space to Customers for the current policy, </div>
<div> as that is the basis for issuing additional IP address space to service providers. (You</div>
<div> can also find more information on utilization under the corresponding online procedures </div>
<div> <<a href="https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_add_alloc.html">https://www.arin.net/resources/request/ipv4_add_alloc.html</a>>)</div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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