[ncc-services-wg] End User Agreement question
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Hank Nussbacher
hank at efes.iucc.ac.il
Tue Mar 19 10:34:22 CET 2013
At 10:09 19/03/2013 +0100, Janos Zsako wrote: >Dear Hank, > >>While reviewing the suggested RIPE NCC End User Agreement located at: >>http://www.ripe.net/lir-services/resource-management/independent-resources/independent-assignment-request-and-maintenance-agreement-1 >>I see in section 4.3.a: >> >>"The End User shall use the Independent Internet Number Resources >>assigned to it for internal purposes within its own network only." >> >>Legal counsel has stated that based on the text provided, any IP address >>block or ASN assigned could only be used within a >>company/corporate/organization Intranet and publishing such resource on >>the global Internet would violate the End User Agreement. > >I am afraid the word "use" is misinterpreted by the legal counsel. >In the context of the End User Agreement, use means use for identifying >a host, i.e. the quoted text does not allow the End User to configure >an IP address form that range on a host that is not in their own network. >This is further clarified in point 4.3.b. In our context the End User wants us to "park" an ASN under our LIR. Your interpretatio of "use" - "used to to identify a host" - does not cover the ASN instance. -Hank >I am sure you are aware of all I quote below, but I gathered these to help >you in clarifying the issue with the legal counsel. > >Please note that the End User agreement says in Article 1 Definitions: >"Assignment: >act by which the RIPE NCC enables the End User to use Independent Internet >Number Resources for its internal use. This may involve the publication in >the RIPE Database of the End User as the assignee of the respective Internet >Number Resources." > >You can have a look at http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ripe-553 >"IPv4 Address Allocation and Assignment Policies for the RIPE NCC Service >Region" > >The paragraph 2.0.1. says: >"Public IP addresses are assigned to be globally unique according to the >goals described in Section 3 of this document." >and paragraph 3.0.1. says: >"Uniqueness: Each public IPv4 address worldwide must be unique. This is an >absolute requirement guaranteeing that every host on the Internet can be >uniquely identified." > >The world wide uniqueness is indispensable for the reliable communication >on the Internet (and would definitely not be relevant in case you used the >IP addresses in your own network only - see RFC1918). > >I hope this helps. > >Best regards, >Janos > >>Who has used this draft agreement and did you change the text? Strange >>that no one has spotted this before. >> >>Regards, >>Hank >> >>
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