Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[jrhett at netconsonance.com (Jo Rhett)]

On Apr 21, 2009, at 1:58 PM, David Hubbard wrote:
> Raising the price won't help; there's already a huge amount
> of wasted address space by web hosts selling IP addresses
> to customers who need them solely for 'seo purposes' rather

It's a common request we see.  We refuse it, and point them to the  
Google documentation that shows that unique IPs don't help or hurt  
their SEO standings.

> reasons and even then they don't believe me.  If ARIN would
> enforce a technically justified use of IPv4 space that does
> not recognize "seo" as a valid reason, that would definitely
> help

I point to the wording where it says that we need to collect the  
technical justification for the additional IP addresses.  Since  
virtual web hosting has no technical justification for IP space, I  
refuse it.

> And since the policy allows it currently, the CEO signing off
> on it will also be valid.


Depends on how you read the policy.  I prefer my reading to yours ;-)

That said, if someone who likes writing these things will help me,  
I'll gladly create and advance a policy demanding a real, provable  
need for an IP beyond one per physical host.

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Jo Rhett
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