[arin-ppml] ARIN / Microsoft press release regarding IP address Transfers

[John Curran]

Milton -

   Please do not present your speculations as fact.  For example, a detailed needs assessment was indeed performed; your lack of knowledge of it doesn't make your assertion otherwise correct, and to state that "No needs assessment as performed" as factual knowledge is simply wrong.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN

On Apr 16, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

> Facts are facts. The sale took place in a private agreement brokered by a private address brokerage company. The party selling the resources never signed any agreement with ARIN, whether RSA or LRSA. MS (the buyer) received the resources under an LRSA, not the standard RSA. No needs assessment was performed. In other words, the transfer took place completely outside of ARIN's transfer policy.