[139739] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Mon Apr 18 20:11:56 2011
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:12:17 -0500
In-Reply-To: <A5072EC7-ECC4-440C-989F-6B90F5AF9D36@virtualized.org>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>,
NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 18, 2011, at 6:33 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> As far as I can tell, the participants in ARIN's processes are more =
interested in trying to be a regulator than in being a registry. Given =
ARIN is not a government body and it does not have full buy-in from =
those who they would try to regulate, I suspect this will directly =
result in a proliferation of folks like tradeipv4.com, depository.net, =
etc. Unfortunately, I figure this will have negative repercussions for =
network operations (unless someone steps in and provides a definitive =
"address titles registry").
I agree completely with this concern. Against good advice of friends =
(who said I would be wasting my time), I tried to do something about it: =
I introduced several policy proposals to ARIN that deal with the =
question of authority and ownership.
At John Curran's advice, the ARIN Advisory Council abandoned my =
proposals. Two of them are now in "petition" for further discussion, =
including ARIN-prop-134 which outlines how to identify a "legitimate =
address holder" and ARIN-prop-136 which allows a Legacy holder to =
"opt-out" of ARIN's services. The idea is to make it possible for =
legacy holders (who don't have a contract with ARIN) to disarm ARIN's =
whois weapon.
If anybody on NANOG supports these concepts, please express your support =
to PPML so that the proposals can move forward.
Please see these links for more info:
> http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2011-April/020604.html
> http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2011-April/020605.html
Cheers,
-Benson
