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On Sep 15, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Martin Hannigan <<a href="mailto:hannigan@gmail.com" class="">hannigan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">This is all not only possible, but in practice. ARIN has known that this has been happening for many years now. See slide 7
<a href="http://bit.ly/1ifoSAV" class="">http://bit.ly/1ifoSAV</a> for at least the start of the conversation. There's a great pub tale around how this story developed. See me in Montreal. :)</div>
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<div>Correct - such use of address space works because overall the ISP community </div>
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<div>i.e. there is no need for ARIN (or any other RIR) to take any action unless the </div>
<div>community determines otherwise and specifies actual policy in this area. If folks</div>
<div>want it to work otherwise, then they know how to develop policy accordingly.</div>
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<div>See my email to this list from 2012 on this topic...</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">From: John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>><br class="">
Subject: [arin-ppml] Leasing (was: Re: IPv4 Update)<br class="">
Date: August 22, 2012 9:18:33 PM EDT<br class="">
To: Enrique Garcia <<a href="mailto:Enrique.Garcia@sidera.net" class="">Enrique.Garcia@sidera.net</a>><br class="">
Cc: "<a href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net" class="">arin-ppml@arin.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net" class="">arin-ppml@arin.net</a>><br class="">
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On Aug 22, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Enrique Garcia <<a href="mailto:Enrique.Garcia@sidera.net" class="">Enrique.Garcia@sidera.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">I received an e-mail this morning from a company claiming that IP Space can now be leased.<br class="">
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Was just wondering if this was legal.<br class="">
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If by "legal", you mean "in compliance with the community number resource<br class="">
management policy in this region", then perhaps I can provide some insight. <br class="">
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Internet service providers routinely provide IP address assignments as part <br class="">
of their Internet services bundle, and those assignments are not permanent<br class="">
in nature but only for the duration of the service agreement. Many would<br class="">
consider such assignments to be "leased IP address space". <br class="">
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Organizations receiving IP address space (as the recipient of a transfer or<br class="">
via allocations of IP address space from the free pool) as an ISP must meet <br class="">
the LIR definition (per NRPM 2.4) and that means "primarily assigning address <br class="">
space to the users of the network services that it provides." End-users <br class="">
receiving transfers or assignments of IP address space from the free pool <br class="">
must meet the End-user definition (per NRPM 2.6) during their request which <br class="">
requires they be receiving space to be used "exclusively for use in its <br class="">
operational networks."<br class="">
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Ergo, the "leasing" of recently received space could reasonably raise<br class="">
concern about whether the request to ARIN for that space was made with<br class="">
full sincerity, and organizations would be advised not to request to receive<br class="">
IP address from the free pool or as the recipient of a transfer if their intent<br class="">
is to "lease" the space rather then use it for their network service customers <br class="">
(if an ISP) or use it for their own network (if they applied as an end-user.) <br class="">
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There has been no policy development specifically regarding leasing as an<br class="">
appropriate/inappropriate use of held IP address space, so ARIN does not <br class="">
have a position either way (aside from the case above of insuring that <br class="">
requests to receive additional address space are made in good faith based<br class="">
on existing definitions of usage.) Obviously, individual Internet service <br class="">
providers may have their own views on handling of "leased" address space,<br class="">
depending on any number of factors including registrant and block size.<br class="">
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I hope this helps somewhat in understanding the situation, recognizing <br class="">
that it is not likely to be as complete an answer as you would have liked.<br class="">
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Thanks!<br class="">
/John<br class="">
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John Curran<br class="">
President and CEO<br class="">
ARIN<br class="">
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