[Advisors] Fwd: an issue for community network technical administrators

Tue Apr 4 09:06:54 PDT 2017

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> From: Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net>
> Date: April 4, 2017 at 10:25:50 AM CDT
> To: "Ian! D. Allen" <idallen at idallen.ca>
> Cc: Garth Graham <garth.graham at telus.net>
> Subject: Re: an issue for community network technical administrators
> 
> Thanks to Ian and Garth for responding to this request for input. Shelley Robinson (NCF) and I and a few other comnet supporters here at the ARIN meeting asked that this proposal be reconsidered and this suggestion was well received. We will probably have further input on the rewrite of this. It is important to keep community networks on the radar at all levels.
> 
> Marita
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>>> On Apr 2, 2017, at 12:29 AM, Ian! D. Allen <idallen at idallen.ca> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Apr 01, 2017 at 10:28:12AM -0400, Marita Moll wrote:
>>> Hi Ian. You probably know more about this than most. Any comments?
>> 
>> I don't know about it.  Maybe talk to NCF?
>> 
>> It doesn't hurt to leave it in, does it?  It could be useful if
>> community networks knew about it, which I'm sure they don't.
>> 
>> "Few people would think of building bridges if the counted how many
>> people swam the river."
>> 
>>> Marita
>>> 
>>> -------- Forwarded Message --------
>>> Subject: an issue for community network technical administrators
>>>  Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2017 10:26:39 -0400
>>>  From: Marita Moll [1]<mmoll at ca.inter.net>
>>>    To: TC Advisors [2]<advisors at tc.ca>
>>> 
>>> Hello all. I am attending the general assembly of North American At-Large
>>> Organizations this week (New Orleans) which is combined with the annual
>>> meeting of ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers -- yes, the people who
>>> manage the Internet numbers for all of us).
>>> 
>>> I was quickly running through some of the stuff that was being discussed,
>>> voted on at ARIN and I noticed the motion to get rid of this section of their
>>> policy that was specifically set up for community networks.  It doesn't mean a
>>> lot to me, but it might be relevant to those who manage the technology. I am
>>> sure anyone will be allowed to speak on this if they have an objection.
>>> 
>>> Here is the except from the policy manual of the piece they are proposing to
>>> delete for lack of use/interest. Please let me know if the removal of this
>>> special status (for obtaining numbers, I am guessing) will affect your
>>> networks.
>>> 
>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>> 
>>> 6.5.9. Community Network Assignments
>>> 
>>> While community networks would normally be considered to be ISP type
>>> organizations under existing ARIN criteria, they tend to operate on much
>>> tighter budgets and often depend on volunteer labor. As a result, they tend to
>>> be much smaller and more communal in their organization rather than
>>> provider/customer relationships of commercial ISPs. This section seeks to
>>> provide policy that is more friendly to those environments by allowing them to
>>> use end-user criteria.
>>> 
>>> 6.5.9.1. Qualification Criteria
>>> 
>>> To qualify under this section, a community network must demonstrate to ARIN's
>>> satisfaction that it meets the definition of a community network under section
>>> 2.11 of the NRPM.
>>> 
>>> 6.5.9.2. Receiving Resources
>>> 
>>> Once qualified under this section, a community network shall be treated as an
>>> end-user assignment for all ARIN purposes.
>>> 
>>> Community networks shall be eligible under this section only for IPv6
>>> resources and the application process and use of those resources shall be
>>> governed by the existing end-user policy contained in section 6.5.8 et. seq.
>>> 
>>> Community networks seeking other resources shall remain subject to the
>>> policies governing those resources independent of their election to use this
>>> policy for IPv6 resources.
>>> 
>>> Marita
>>> 
>>> References
>>> 
>>>  1. mailto:mmoll at ca.inter.net
>>>  2. mailto:advisors at tc.ca
>> 
>> -- 
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