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On 25-Feb-15 12:10, Jon Lewis wrote:<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> I wasn't prepared to argue
about either of these "policies"<br>
> yesterday, but after searching the NRPM, I can't find any
basis for<br>
> either of them. So, I called the helpdesk to double-check /
ask<br>
> where in the NRPM I could find these "policies". I was told
they're<br>
> based on ARIN's interpretation of 2.2, specifically "The
primary role<br>
> of RIRs is to manage and distribute public Internet address
space<br>
> within their respective regions." </span><br>
<br>
I think this matches the intent of 2.2 at the time it was written:
preventing "registry shopping" by registrants.<br>
<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Those are some very specific
"policies" derived from a very vague</span><br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> sentence,</span><br>
<br>
Well, that's the downside to giving staff vague policies; we do so
because we trust them to interpret the intent correctly and apply it
to all sorts of cases we hadn't considered, but it's inevitable that
their interpretation (with the best of intentions) doesn't match our
intent, or that our intent changes and their interpretation doesn't.<br>
<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> which I think could just as
reasonably be interpreted as meaning the RIRs exist to serve<br>
> organizations headquartered in their respective service
regions.<br>
> You're a US corporation, ARIN is your RIR. You're a German<br>
> corporation, RIPE is your RIR.<br>
</span><br>
So, if I'm a German corporation and I don't like RIPE's rules, I
simply set up a shell corporation in the US and get my addresses
from ARIN, then use them in Germany anyway? That doesn't sound
right.<br>
<br>
Such registry shopping will inevitably result in a "race to the
bottom" and defeat the entire rationale for having regional
registries.<br>
<br>
IMHO, addresses should come from the registry for the region in
which they're used, with exceptions for "incidental" use, e.g.
out-of-region usage is smaller than would justify the respective
region's minimum direct allocation/assignment size. I _think_ this
is what staff has been implementing all along, and I never said
anything because I agreed, but if we need explicit policy to defend
that interpretation, I'll write the proposal and see who else
agrees.<br>
<br>
S<br>
<br>
-- <br>
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein<br>
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the<br>
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking<br>
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