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    <p>Hi Scott, what Internet operation exists there is no connectivity
      provided by the resource holder to a customer ?</p>
    <p>Unfortunately that's not quiet correct your assertion that simply
      ARIN should only care whether addresses are in use on a operation
      network or not. Above all they should care if resources are being
      utilized according to the current policy and the need they were
      justified for.<br>
      If an organization who doesn't provide any connectivity services
      to another and simply leases (rent or lend) address to be used for
      this second one creates security issues, given that,*in the
      absence of connectivity the member receiving the license to use
      the addresses does not have immediate physical control to manage
      or filter these resources, something that could potentially result
      in damages to the entire community.</p>
    <p>Fernando<br>
    </p>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 24/08/2022 14:26, Scott Leibrand
      wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">No, this draft policy is not merely a
        clarification. This would a significant change in policy, and if
        enforced would significantly interfere with the efficient
        operation of the Internet.
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        <div>ARIN should only care whether addresses are in use on an
          operational network. They have no reason to care about the
          connectivity, or lack thereof, between an LIR and operational
          networks that it reallocates or reassigns space to.</div>
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        <div>I run an operational network. We still use a number of
          address blocks originally allocated to us by our transit
          providers before we acquired our own space, which we have
          always announced in BGP in a multihomed fashion. If we stop
          announcing the route to the transit provider who announced us
          the space, whether temporarily (due to an outage or
          maintenance) or more permanently (because we no longer need
          transit from them there), we should be able to continue using
          our assigned space as long as we have appropriate contractual
          arrangements in place to do so. That is a form of "leasing"
          that has always been allowed, and this policy would disallow
          it.</div>
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        <div>Any policy requiring a certain form of connectivity between
          an LIR and its customers will either be unenforceable and
          easily gamed, or onerous, bureaucratic, and will interfere
          with the legitimate operation of networks efficiently
          utilizing their IPv4 space.</div>
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        <div>-Scott</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 24, 2022 at 9:32
          AM Fernando Frediani <<a href="mailto:fhfrediani@gmail.com"
            moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">fhfrediani@gmail.com</a>>
          wrote:<br>
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            <p>Hello Scott</p>
            <p>Could you explain better the arguments you are against in
              this proposal or that don't sound valid?</p>
            <p>All this proposal does is to make clear make something
              clear in the policy text.<br>
              If you cannot go to ARIN and justify that you intend to
              use requested IP addresses for simple leasing proposes, to
              be leased to organization with who you don't provide any
              connectivity services, why would it be an accepted thing
              in any other scenario ?<br>
              IP space is to be used for building Internet
              infrastructure and to get customers connected to the
              Internet, not to be simply leased from one organization
              pretending to be a RIR to another.</p>
            <p>Unless I misunderstood and you like the idea of leasing
              and so why you oppose this proposal.</p>
            <p>Regards<br>
              Fernando<br>
            </p>
            <div>On 24/08/2022 12:40, Scott Leibrand wrote:<br>
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            <blockquote type="cite"> Opposed. There is no good reason I
              am aware of for ARIN to require the bundling of IP
              addressing and connectivity services. The arguments
              provided in this draft policy are not sound or valid ones.
               <br>
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                <div>Scott</div>
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              <div dir="ltr"><br>
                <blockquote type="cite">On Aug 23, 2022, at 9:28 AM,
                  ARIN <a href="mailto:info@arin.net" target="_blank"
                    moz-do-not-send="true"><info@arin.net></a>
                  wrote:<br>
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                    <p class="MsoNormal">On 18 August 2022, the ARIN
                      Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-308:
                      Leasing Not Intended" as a Draft Policy.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Draft Policy ARIN-2022-9 is
                      below and can be found at:</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><a
                        href="https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2022_9/"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2022_9/</a></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">You are encouraged to discuss
                      all Draft Policies on PPML. The AC will evaluate
                      the discussion to assess the conformance of this
                      draft policy with ARIN's Principles of Internet
                      number resource policy as stated in the Policy
                      Development Process (PDP). Specifically, these
                      principles are:</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">* Enabling Fair and Impartial
                      Number Resource Administration</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">* Technically Sound</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">* Supported by the Community</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">The PDP can be found at:</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"><a
                        href="https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/</a></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Draft Policies and Proposals
                      under discussion can be found at: <a
                        href="https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/"
                        target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"
                        class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/</a></p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Sean Hopkins</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Senior Policy Analyst</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">American Registry for Internet
                      Numbers (ARIN)</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Draft Policy ARIN-2022-9:
                      Leasing Not Intended</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Problem Statement:</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">“IPv6 Policy (section 6.4.1.)
                      explicitly mention that address space is not a
                      property. This is also stated in the RSA (section
                      7.) for all the Internet Number Resources.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">However, with the spirit of the
                      IPv4 allocation policies being the same, there is
                      not an equivalent text for IPv4, neither for ASNs.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Further to that, policies for
                      IPv4 and IPv6 allocations, clearly state that
                      allocations are based on justified need and not
                      solely on a predicted customer base. Similar text
                      can be found in the section related to Transfers
                      (8.1).</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Consequently, resources not
                      only aren’t a property, but also, aren’t allocated
                      for leasing purposes, only for justified need of
                      the resource holder and its directly connected
                      customers.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Therefore, and so that there
                      are no doubts about it, it should be made explicit
                      in the NRPM that the Internet Resources should not
                      be leased “per se”, but only as part of a direct
                      connectivity service. At the same time, section
                      6.4.1. should be moved to the top of the NRPM
                      (possibly to section 1. “Principles and Goals of
                      the American Registry for Internet Numbers
                      (ARIN)”.”</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Policy statement:</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Actual Text (to be replaced by
                      New Text):</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">6.4.1. Address Space Not to be
                      Considered Property</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">It is contrary to the goals of
                      this document and is not in the interests of the
                      Internet community as a whole for address space to
                      be considered freehold property.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">The policies in this document
                      are based upon the understanding that
                      globally-unique IPv6 unicast address space is
                      allocated/assigned for use rather than owned.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">New Text</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">1.5. Internet Number Resources
                      Not to be Considered Property</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">It is contrary to the goals of
                      this document and is not in the interests of the
                      Internet community as a whole for address space to
                      be considered freehold property.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">The policies in this document
                      are based upon the understanding that Internet
                      Number Resources are allocated/assigned for use
                      rather than owned.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">ARIN allocate and assign
                      Internet resources in a delegation scheme, with an
                      annual validity, renewable as long as the
                      requirements specified by the policies in force at
                      the time of renewal are met, and especially the
                      justification of the need.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Therefore, the resources can’t
                      be considered property.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">The justification of the need,
                      generically in the case of addresses, implies
                      their need to directly connect customers.
                      Therefore, the leasing of addresses is not
                      considered acceptable, nor does it justify the
                      need, if they are not part of a set of services
                      based, at least, on direct connectivity.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Even in cases of networks not
                      connected to the Internet, the leasing of
                      addresses is not admissible, since said sites can
                      request direct assignments from ARIN and even in
                      the case of IPv4, use private addresses or arrange
                      transfers.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Timetable for implementation:
                      Immediate </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Situation in other Regions:</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">In other RIRs, the leasing of
                      addresses is not authorized either and since it is
                      not explicit in their policy manuals either, this
                      proposal will be presented as well.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal">Nothing is currently mentioned
                      in RIPE about this and it is not acceptable as a
                      justification of the need. In AFRINIC, APNIC and
                      LACNIC, the staff has confirmed that address
                      leasing is not considered as valid for the
                      justification.</p>
                    <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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