<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tr><td valign="top"><div>The internet is supposed to make it easier for businesses and business people to connect and get things done faster, like, for example, recruiting business people, but ironically internet governance connected groups spend most of their time physically traveling to places to get mostly nothing done, and say "more work needs to be done". <br /><br />Anybody remember NamesCon 2008? Me niether. There hasn't ever been a Conference that the whole world benefitted from, because conferences in the internet age are not meant for progress, conferences are just excuses for people to travel, to see and be seen, to party, in my opinion, and in my opinion proven by the fact that the internet's supposed and oft-mentioned purpose is to facilitate the entire business process, making the decision making/meeting process at conferences obsolete, unnecessary in a business sense, and also laughable,
when some business people who could easily talk and compare business notes any time of day via the internet say, "Let's wait for the conference to decide on that." Why? <br /><br />So Travelers can say they are leaders who physically traveled to meet and talk with relevant business people, when I am as much of a leader writing this single critique via email as they are traveling to vegas to walk around and say, "ooh, that's interesting" 1000 times. While it might be fun to do, the internet community is waiting for real tangible progress and real solutions to real world problems and all the tech community has provided them in the past 12 months is an IWatch. I would argue that the "constant conference culture" limits real progress by getting people stuck in a never ending travel loop, where all they begin to care about is the quality of the next travel destination. <br /><br />Ron</div></td></tr></table> <div id="_origMsg_">
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<td valign="top">Not speaking for John, but I don’t believe that would help because I believe that anything which<div class="">does not meet the definition of an “end user” is de fact an ISP.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Creating a clear definition of “ISP” would likely, instead, create a new category of organizations</div><div class="">which fit neither defined category and suddenly find themselves without any way to interact with</div><div class="">ARIN. I would not consider that to be an improvement.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It may be that adding a statement to policy that any organization which does not meet the strict</div><div class="">definition of “End User” is therefore considered an ISP for policy purposes.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div
class="">On Dec 6, 2015, at 13:03 , Jose R. de la Cruz III <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jrdelacruz@acm.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return" class="">jrdelacruz@acm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><div class="">John:<br class=""><br class=""></div>Thanks for the additional info. It looks like the problem brought forth in the referenced document was never completely solved. Because an end user is defined as "<i class="">an organization receiving assignments of IP
addresses <b class="">exclusively </b>for use in its operational networks</i>.", it is my opinion that the "<i class="">exclusively</i>" part of the definition maybe the one creating some problems. In the "large enterprises which may provide services to many entities of various degrees of affiliation" example, the <i class="">exclusively </i>part of the definition should not apply. The question is, are these organizations actively involved in the reassigning that IP space to their
customers? <br class=""><br class="">Although no formal definition for ISP is included in the policy manual, an ISP does not fit into the end user definition. Would a definition for ISP provide a clear guidance in thesubject? How should hosting/cloud/cdn providers be categorized?<br class=""><br class=""></div>José<br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 8:43 AM, John Curran <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" target="_blank" href="javascript:return" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On Dec 4, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Jose R. de la Cruz III <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:jrdelacruz@acm.org" target="_blank" href="javascript:return" class="">jrdelacruz@acm.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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4.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Should End-Users who want to be able to re-assign records simply
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<span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">--->No. Why should they? <br class="">
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span class="">5.<span style="font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:'Times New Roman';" class=""> </span></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Should
the ISP/End-User distinction be eliminated (which is a bigger discussion outside the scope of the current problem statement)?<br class="">
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">---> No. They are different type of business entities and should be serviced according to their needs.</span></div>
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</span><div class="">I have no comment either way regarding the particular policy proposal under</div>
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<div class="">- The distinction between “end-user” and “ISP” is very clear in many cases, </div>
<div class=""> but not universally. Examples where it is less clear include university and</div>
<div class=""> college systems, large enterprises which may provide services to many </div>
<div class=""> entities of various degrees of affiliation (wholly-owned, partially-owned,</div>
<div class=""> joint entity, business partner), hosting/cloud/cdn providers (where the line</div>
<div class=""> between infrastructure and customer can be quite blurry at times), etc.</div>
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<div class="">- The desire to between ISP and End-User (or visa-versa) may be driven</div>
<div class=""> by fee or policy motivations, but we have seen an increase in end-users</div>
<div class=""> who wish to re-assign blocks in order to have more accurate information</div>
<div class=""> in the database regarding the actual address usage, particularly with </div>
<div class=""> respect to their geolocation data. </div>
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<div class="">Today ARIN tries to work with ISPs and end-users who wish to change </div>
<div class="">their categorization, but understandly we lack clear guidance for what </div>
<div class="">is becoming an increasingly blurry distinction. For additional context,</div>
<div class="">refer to the ARIN 31 Policy Experience Report (where this issue was </div>
<div class="">raised) - <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_31/PDF/monday/nobile_policy.pdf" class="">https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_31/PDF/monday/nobile_policy.pdf</a></div>
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