Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

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 future and
> > result in the address space being returned to ARIN or transferred per current
> > policy.
>
> 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? :)

In organizations of all sizes, positions and policies change, 
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 
address blocks to ARIN for reuse by the community if they no 
longer needed.

If you'd like to reserve a large block for purposes of LSN 
without any concern of future address conflict, it would be 
best to actually reserve it via community-developed policy.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN