Thus spake Brian Jones (bjo...@vt.edu) on Tue, Dec 05, 2023 at 02:28:18PM -0500: > > Section 6.5.1.a “Terminology” explains that ISP and LIR terms are used > interchangeably throughout the entire document. The NRPM working group in > discussions with ARIN staff has concluded that the term LIR could be replaced > everywhere in the NRPM with the term ISP. By my counts the term LIR appears > 37 times in the NRPM currently, while ISP is referenced 62 times. The LIR > term is utilized less nowadays than in times past and ISP is a more widely > used and well understood term. The LIR term occurs more frequently in other > RIRs and it is likely that if section 6 were written solely for ARIN the ISP > term would have been used. So the question to the community is, would > replacing the term LIR with ISP make the NRPM more consistent and readable? > The NRPM working group would like to hear your feedback.
I think that would be a step in the wrong direction. To me, the term ISP seems to carry a strong commercial connotation that excludes the existence of LIR entities that include governments, academic institutions, non-profits, large scale enterprises, or even cloud or content providers. Of course, I have some bias coming from a network that is very much not an isp... ;-) The term LIR is used at other RIR's as you mention, as well as in a number of RFC's since the mid 90's. Why should we diverge? I think you could delete 6.5.1.a and clarify in section 2 that LIR and ISP may be used interchangably in the document, but personally I would prefer use of the term ISP be cleaned up, not LIR. > Part b > Section 6.5.1.b defines the IPv6 nibble boundaries . The working group feels > like this definition would be a better fit if moved to section 2 of the NRPM > which is the Definitions section. Your thoughts about moving the IPv6 nibble > boundaries definition from section 6.5.1.b to section 2 would be appreciated. Sounds perfectly reasonable. Dale _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact i...@arin.net if you experience any issues.
