[120559] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Dec 24 12:03:32 2009
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:59:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Leo Vegoda <leo.vegoda@icann.org>
In-Reply-To: <C756A387.2B8DF%leo.vegoda@icann.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, 22 Dec 2009, Leo Vegoda wrote:
>> ASSIGNED PA: This address space has been assigned to an End User for use
>> with services provided by the issuing LIR. It cannot be kept when
>> terminating services provided by the LIR.
>>
>> My interpretation of the above is ASSIGNED PA is the equivalent of my
>> assigning IP space to a customer who either buys transit (connectivity)
>> from us or colo's or buys server hosting from us where they will use that
>> IP space. We don't simply lease out IP space for "customers" to use as
>> they please on other networks.
>
> I am sure that your interpretation was the original intent of the policy
> text. However, the wording could also be read in a way that allows an LIR to
> just provide registry services, without providing any connectivity services.
That's one hell of a stretch. Registry services aren't needed if they
don't have the IP space, so saying that the service the end user is buying
that justifies the IP assignment is 'registration services' is a circular
argument.
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