<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, 21:25 Mehmet Akcin, <<a href="mailto:mehmet@akcin.net" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">mehmet@akcin.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">I am kind of curious of the ICANN/IANA position on this? </div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b>4) Neutrality and impartiality in relation to all interested parties, and particularly the LIRs</b></p><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">All organisations that receive service from the new <abbr title="Regional Internet Registry" style="font-weight:inherit;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;direction:ltr;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:initial">RIR</abbr> must be treated equally. The policies and guidelines proposed and implemented by the <abbr title="Regional Internet Registry" style="font-weight:inherit;unicode-bidi:bidi-override;direction:ltr;border-bottom:1px dotted rgb(153,153,153);text-decoration-line:none;text-decoration-style:initial">RIR</abbr> need to ensure fair distribution of resources, and impartial treatment of the members/requestors.</p><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#333333" face="helvetica, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/new-rirs-criteria-2012-02-25-en">https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/new-rirs-criteria-2012-02-25-en</a></span></font><br></p><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Principle #4 of ICP-2 goes to emphasise a very important aspect of Internet Number Management which is "fair distribution of resources".</p><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">From the context of a party without reasonable Internet Infrastructure, lacks an ASN, has no IPv6 allocation. Would you call the over 6 million IPv4 allocations to an entity that does not participate in the Internet ecosystem itself, fair distribution? </p><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Noah</p><p align="left" style="line-height:1.4rem;font-size:16px;margin:0px 0px 1.25rem;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></p></div></div>