Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Harrowell
There are major GSM-land wireless operators who provide service to devices like Novatel's line of pocket-size WLAN hotspots. You can just buy one and stick a SIM in it, but some of the ops offer them as part of a business user package. I hope that means they get a proper IP or more handed out

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/10/2011 1:49 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: Yeah, this is a sure path to having all of them say exactly that in unison. Do you want to be right? Or would you prefer to be effective? I think he wants to know which bogons will continue to be safe to use. :P Jack

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Vixie
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:13:49 -0600 From: Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com With them not requiring a /8 in the first place (after CIDR); one begins to wonder how much of their /8 allocations they actually touched in any meaningful way. i expect that after final depletion there will be some

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:13:49AM -0600, Jimmy Hess wrote: Perhaps the RIRs should personally and directly ask each /8 legacy holder to provide account of their utilization (which portions of the allocation is used, how many hosts), and ASK for each unused /22 [or shorter] to be

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread John Curran
On Feb 10, 2011, at 3:13 AM, Jimmy Hess wrote: Perhaps the RIRs should personally and directly ask each /8 legacy holder to provide account of their utilization (which portions of the allocation is used, how many hosts), and ASK for each unused /22 [or shorter] to be returned.

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/10/2011 6:07 PM, John Curran wrote: As I did not explain in advance to each to the parties that their responses would be public, it would not be proper to publicly post the information. Discussions with individual resource holders is treated as confidential information. Since you have

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/10/2011 8:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: As a side effect, it also kills any need of any proposals in various institutions to reserve virgin space for utilization of LSN and such. It might not be too far fetched that they might even endorse us reusing their addressing with permission for

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread John Curran
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Jack Bates wrote: Since you have gone through the process before. It would be nice (especially concerning the DoD networks) if you could ask if they plan to keep them (not monetize) and if you could make such a statement publicly. I mention this, as DoD is

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jack Bates
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

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread John Curran
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

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/10/2011 8:44 PM, John Curran wrote: 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. When there are X /8 networks reserved by the USG, it seems extremely

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:44 PM, John Curran wrote: 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

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 10, 2011, at 9:54 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 2/10/2011 8:44 PM, John Curran wrote: 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. When there are X

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread John Curran
On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Jack Bates wrote: When there are X /8 networks reserved by the USG, it seems extremely wasteful to reserve from what little space we have a large block dedicated to LSN when the USG can give assurances that 1) We won't route this, so use it 2) We won't be

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/10/2011 9:11 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: I was explaining to my wife today how it felt like the nanog list went to 3x the typical mail volume recently with all the IPv6 stuff this month. Why the pro-IPv6 crowd was happy, the anti-IPv6 crowd is groaning (including those that truly despise the

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Robert Bonomi
From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi@nanog.org Thu Feb 10 20:35:01 2011 Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 20:31:32 -0600 From: Jack Bates jba...@brightok.net To: John Curran jcur...@arin.net Subject: Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers Cc: NANOG na...@merit.edu On 2/10/2011

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 78697910-f7a6-4d53-ad93-377fce660...@arin.net, John Curran writes: 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

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-10 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 2/10/11 6:54 PM, Jack Bates wrote: On 2/10/2011 8:44 PM, John Curran wrote: 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. When there are X /8 networks

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-09 Thread Paul Vixie
David Conrad d...@virtualized.org writes: I'm curious: when HP acquired the assets of Compaq (or when Compaq acquired the assets of Digital), is it your position that HP (or Compaq) met the same criteria as if they were requesting an IP address directly from the IR. for 16.0.0.0/8? since i

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-09 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org wrote: David Conrad d...@virtualized.org writes: whether either DEC or HP could have qualified for a /8 under current rules, since the basis for these (pre-RIR) allocations was that they needed more than a /16 and these were the days

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-09 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:13 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Paul Vixie vi...@isc.org wrote: David Conrad d...@virtualized.org writes: whether either DEC or HP could have qualified for a /8 under current rules, since the basis for these (pre-RIR) allocations was that

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-07 Thread Randy Bush
So, what exactly is broken and needs to be changed? the policy making process. we have created a minor industry in telling other people how to run their network. how about no more ipv4 policy proposals and charge $1,000 to file an ipv6 policy proposal? randy

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-07 Thread Peter Maccauley
All this talk of ARIN's power and rights versus others is rather despairing. I will now explain what we, a 'non-connectivity' ISP, are providing as useful service. Many of customers value anonymity/pseudonymity. We can provide these things. Sure, there is a great potential for abuse, but we

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-07 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 7, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Randy Bush wrote: So, what exactly is broken and needs to be changed? the policy making process. we have created a minor industry in telling other people how to run their network. how about no more ipv4 policy proposals and charge $1,000 to file an ipv6

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-06 Thread John Curran
On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:16 PM, David Conrad wrote: As you're aware, RFC 2050 was a group effort, so focusing on Jon's intent seems questionable particularly given he sadly isn't around to provide corrections. While it may have been a group effort, Jon was the IANA. With regards to specific

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-06 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 6, 2011, at 9:53 AM, John Curran wrote: Your suggestion that existing loans may be impacted means to be ignored for evaluating future allocations does seems a bit superfluous when taken in full context, but obviously must be considered as you are one of the authors. I believe (it

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-06 Thread Randy Bush
it is both amusing and horrifying to watch two old dogs argue about details of written rules as if common sense had died in october 1998. what is good for the internet? what is simple? what is pragmatic? if the answer is not simple and obvious, we should go break something else. randy

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-06 Thread John Curran
On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Randy Bush wrote: it is both amusing and horrifying to watch two old dogs argue about details of written rules as if common sense had died in october 1998. what is good for the internet? what is simple? what is pragmatic? if the answer is not simple and obvious,

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-06 Thread Majdi S. Abbas
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 04:51:26PM -0800, Randy Bush wrote: it is both amusing and horrifying to watch two old dogs argue about details of written rules as if common sense had died in october 1998. what is good for the internet? what is simple? what is pragmatic? if the answer is not simple

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers (was: Re: And so it ends... )

2011-02-05 Thread bmanning
On Thu, Feb 03, 2011 at 04:54:42PM +, John Curran wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: My point being, the leasing of IP space to non-connectivity customers is already well established, whether it's technically permitted by the [ir]relevant RIRs. I fully expect this

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:57 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: For the ARIN region, it would be nice to know how you'd like ARIN perform in the presence of such activity (leasing IP addresses by ISP not providing connectivity). It's possible that such is perfectly reasonable and to simply

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 12:40:44PM +, John Curran wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 5:57 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: For the ARIN region, it would be nice to know how you'd like ARIN perform in the presence of such activity (leasing IP addresses by ISP not providing

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:22 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: as you pointed out back in oh, IETF-29, actual network operators don't participate much in the standards setting process so its no wonder RFC 2050 has (several) blind-spots when it comes to operational reality.

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Feb 5, 2011, at 12:24 PM, John Curran wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:22 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: as you pointed out back in oh, IETF-29, actual network operators don't participate much in the standards setting process so its no wonder RFC 2050 has (several)

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers (was: Re: And so it ends... )

2011-02-05 Thread Joel Jaeggli
the practice predates ARIN by many years... FWIW... No reason to play coy... (ep.net) --bill

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:22 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: ARIN's community certinly is dominated by a particular type of network operator. It's dominated by the type of network operator who shows up and participates. Generally, I hear

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 12:24:01PM -0500, John Curran wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:22 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: as you pointed out back in oh, IETF-29, actual network operators don't participate much in the standards setting process so its no wonder RFC 2050 has

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:17:29AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:22 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: ARIN's community certinly is dominated by a particular type of network operator. It's dominated by the type of

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:18 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: this report suggests that the question is not RIR specific. http://ciara.fiu.edu/publications/Rubi%20-%20Property%20Rights%20in%20IP%20Numbers.pdf but thats just me. FYI - Also remember to consider the

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:27 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:17:29AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: ... It's dominated by the type of network operator who shows up and participates. Generally, I hear what you're saying and don't disagree, but this is one of

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Bill Woodcock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:27 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: If I justified an allocation 20 years ago, under the then current policy, it's presumptuous to presume the power of expropriation. No one presumes it, and a lot of us are in the

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 11:01:00AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:27 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: If I justified an allocation 20 years ago, under the then current policy, it's presumptuous to presume the

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:27 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 10:17:29AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:22 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: ARIN's community certinly is dominated by a

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/5/2011 2:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: Your right to use a particular set of addresses on a particular network is not granted by any RIR. It is granted by the people who run the routers on that network. It is up to the operators of each individual network to choose which network numbers they

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Levine
Your right to use a particular set of addresses on a particular network is not granted by any RIR. As far as I know, there's no case law about address space assignments. There's been a bunch of cases where someone stole address space by pretending to be the original assignee, like the SF Bay

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/5/2011 5:06 PM, John Levine wrote: If there have been cases with a willing seller and a willing buyer where ARIN has refused to update WHOIS or rDNS, I'd be interested to hear about them. Isn't it moot when you can reallocate the entire block to the other party? Contractual agreements of

RE: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Aaron Wendel
How can someone steal something from you that you don’t own? From: John Levine [mailto:jo...@iecc.com] Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 5:06 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers Your right to use a particular set of addresses

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John R. Levine
If there have been cases with a willing seller and a willing buyer where ARIN has refused to update WHOIS or rDNS, I'd be interested to hear about them. Isn't it moot when you can reallocate the entire block to the other party? Contractual agreements of the sale would enforce the inability to

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Levine
In article 0d7e01cbc58a$340347a0$9c09d6e0$@net you write: How can someone steal something from you that you don’t own? Here in the US, until there is statutory or case law, the question of whether the people with legacy IP space assignments own that space is entirely a matter of opinion. I

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Jack Bates
On 2/5/2011 5:25 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Isn't it moot when you can reallocate the entire block to the other party? Contractual agreements of the sale would enforce the inability to reclaim or remove the reallocation. If the user doesn't match what's in WHOIS, a lot of people will assume

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread William Pitcock
Hi, On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 17:12:40 -0600 Aaron Wendel aa...@wholesaleinternet.net wrote: How can someone steal something from you that you don’t own? Legacy space. The best example I can think of was Choopa's hijacking of Erie Forge and Steel's legacy space. In this case, it was theft as it

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Ernie Rubi
Good question: Depends on what kind of address space assignment - if you mean legacy IP space, then no there is no case law. Kremen v. ARIN (Northern District of CA) is the only case law out there, but it is on point only as to 'current' IP space. In Kremen, the district court went only

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Jon Lewis
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011, Jack Bates wrote: That's my point. If a legacy holder can update WHOIS, I presume they can also just allocate the entire block to someone else. It would reflect that in WHOIS, no one would consider it hijacked. Does ARIN accept SWIP requests for IPs within legacy space

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread bmanning
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 09:12:53PM +, John Curran wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:33 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: decides current policy. when current policy directly contridicts the policies under which old address space was allocated, which policy trumps? Bill -

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:27 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: If I justified an allocation 20 years ago, under the then current policy, it's presumptuous to presume the power of expropriation. No one presumes it, and a lot of us are in

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 5, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: ... The ARIN community decides ARIN policy. That policy doesn't inherently reflect community standards in the broader sense, or inherently align with the law for that matter. If the ARIN community were to instruct ARIN to operate in

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 5, 2011, at 8:31 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:27 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: If I justified an allocation 20 years ago, under the then current policy, it's presumptuous to presume the power of

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: The fact that a very large number of network operators use the data contained in the RIR system in a cooperative manner is convenient and makes the internet substantially more useful than I can imagine it would be under alternative scenarios.

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Benson Schliesser
On Feb 5, 2011, at 10:48 PM, John Curran wrote: You are correct that consensus doesn't assure legality; hence all draft policies receive a specific staff and legal review during the development process. Thanks, John. I'm aware of the legal review, as well as the AC and board gateways

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 5, 2011, at 8:40 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 09:12:53PM +, John Curran wrote: RFC 2050 is the document which provides the registry system framework. Jon Postel is an author of same, as well as a founder of ARIN. yup.. i was there when

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 5, 2011, at 9:24 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote: On Feb 5, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: The fact that a very large number of network operators use the data contained in the RIR system in a cooperative manner is convenient and makes the internet substantially more useful than

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread David Conrad
John, On Feb 5, 2011, at 7:33 PM, John Curran wrote: It does not talk to address space allocated to entities from the IANA or other registries prior to the RIRs existance. Is it your belief that Jon did not intend RFC 2050 to apply to the existing allocations maintained by the three

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-05 Thread John Curran
On Feb 6, 2011, at 1:25 AM, David Conrad wrote: Last I checked, the other four authors of RFC 2050 are still alive. Why not ask them? Bill indicated he was there when it was written in reference to Jon being an author, and I was inquiring to whether he had any knowledge of Jon's intent

Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers (was: Re: And so it ends... )

2011-02-03 Thread John Curran
On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: My point being, the leasing of IP space to non-connectivity customers is already well established, whether it's technically permitted by the [ir]relevant RIRs. I fully expect this to continue and spread. Eventually, holders of large legacy

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-03 Thread Scott Helms
John, I would hope that if some ARIN policy is enacted there would be some way to differentiate between organizations, like the one I belong to, that have provided this kind of service to customers for a number of years and organizations looking to take advantage of the new scarcity. We

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers (was: Re: And so it ends... )

2011-02-03 Thread Jon Lewis
On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, John Curran wrote: On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: My point being, the leasing of IP space to non-connectivity customers is already well established, whether it's technically permitted by the [ir]relevant RIRs. I fully expect this to continue and spread.

Re: Leasing of space via non-connectivity providers

2011-02-03 Thread Matthew Kaufman
On 2/3/2011 9:32 AM, Scott Helms wrote: John, I would hope that if some ARIN policy is enacted there would be some way to differentiate between organizations, like the one I belong to, that have provided this kind of service to customers for a number of years and organizations looking to