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Re: IP range for lease
From: William Herrin <bill () herrin us>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2023 10:02:05 -0700
On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 8:47 AM Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org> wrote:
– Leasing of IP address blocks independent of connectivity is not explicitly recognized in ARIN number resource policy (i.e. there is no policy that specifically allows or prohibits such activity.)Correct me if I am wrong here, but in general, that which is not explicitly prohibited is implicitly allowed.
Hi Owen, You're wrong-ish. "Address leasing" is not prohibited per se, it just doesn't count as in-use for the utilization requirements. Consider Amazon AWS. You can have an "elastic IP address" that's not attached to a running server. If it stays that way for most of the month, they charge you for it explicitly rather than wrap it up in the general server charge. In other words, they lease the address without any associated connectivity. Is that address in use per ARIN policy? I don't think it is. Has ARIN ever asked Amazon to detail the number of elastic IP addresses that are not actually in use when it sought more addresses? Probably not. Should they have? Only if there's reason to believe that there are a large enough number of such addresses to make a difference. Otherwise it's purposeless paperwork. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill () herrin us https://bill.herrin.us/
Current thread:
- Re: IP range for lease, (continued)
- Re: IP range for lease Tom Beecher (Jul 10)
- Re: IP range for lease Rubens Kuhl (Jul 10)
- Re: IP range for lease Delong.com via NANOG (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease John Curran (Jul 10)
- Re: IP range for lease Owen DeLong via NANOG (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease John Curran (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease Owen DeLong via NANOG (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease John Curran (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease Owen DeLong via NANOG (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease John Curran (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease William Herrin (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease John Curran (Jul 11)
- Re: IP range for lease Owen DeLong via NANOG (Jul 11)