[137316] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Thu Feb 10 22:01:55 2011
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <78697910-F7A6-4D53-AD93-377FCE66006D@arin.net>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:00:30 -0500
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:44 PM, John Curran wrote:
> On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
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>> 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 =
future and
>>> result in the address space being returned to ARIN or transferred =
per current
>>> 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 assurance that we can safely utilize huge chunks of address space =
assigned to them for purposes such as LSN without fear? :)
>=20
> 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.
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> 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.
I would have to say I agree. Anything short of a posting in the federal =
register is just a statement of the short-term future.
US Gov 201: The federal register from the GPO is the primary source of =
rule making and RFI the government will use prior to regulation that is =
not purely legislative. It may be worthwhile to subscribe, or =
periodically read/search.
- Jared=
