[137314] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Feb 10 21:45:58 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 02:44:46 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4D549F84.4030200@brightok.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 2/10/2011 8:15 PM, John Curran wrote:
>> I'm not certain that you could rely on any organizations statements made=
today
>> to provide any assurance that circumstances would not change in the futu=
re and
>> result in the address space being returned to ARIN or transferred per cu=
rrent
>> policy.
>=20
> An official statement from the DoD? I'm sure we could hold them to it as =
a community. Is it too much for us to ask the US government to give us assu=
rance that we can safely utilize huge chunks of address space assigned to t=
hem for purposes such as LSN without fear? :)
In organizations of all sizes, positions and policies change,=20
with revised statements as a result. One thing that does not
change, however, is contractual commitments, and in this one
case I can state that there is a commitment to return IPv4=20
address blocks to ARIN for reuse by the community if they no=20
longer needed.
If you'd like to reserve a large block for purposes of LSN=20
without any concern of future address conflict, it would be=20
best to actually reserve it via community-developed policy.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
