[ncc-services-wg] End User Agreement question

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
>>
>>