Owen, BIll - Might I suggest moving this entire discussion over to ARIN’s ppml, as not everyone on nanog list necessary wants to spent their time reading about IP registry policy…?
Thanks, /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers > On Jul 11, 2023, at 1:02 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > 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 > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/
