[128662] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Aug 13 19:39:07 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 19:38:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20100813220338.GN2582@sizone.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 13, 2010, at 6:03 PM, Ken Chase wrote:
>=20
> I don't know what to suggest, but perhaps a more binding set of policies =
for
> ARIN members to engage in policing/responding to shutdown requests on the
> community's behalf and some penalties for not upholding agreements is in
> order.
Ken -=20
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Be careful what you ask for... There is a fairly significant difference=20
between ARIN administering number resources (as a trade association based=20
on a body of openly-developed policy) and parties deciding not to engage=20
in business with suppliers or customers except under certain conditions.=20
Some countries prohibit discussions of collective business actions of=20
any form, unless the government is involved to insure that the public=20
interest is protected.
As Vadim noted, you can certainly bilaterally negotiate with another ISP=20
regarding the nature of the routes/IP addresses/traffic that you exchange,
but you might want to seek counsel before trying such on a collective basis=
...
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
