[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-172 Additional definition for NRPM Section 2 - Legacy Resources

[David Farmer]

On 6/18/12 15:44 CDT, John Curran wrote:
> On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:15 PM, David Farmer <farmer at umn.edu> wrote:
>
>> ARIN policy being mostly silent on the issue of legacy resources avoids creating a distinction between types resources, which as you suggest has its advantages.  However, this silence also fosters the misconception that ARIN policies do not apply to legacy resources.  I know it is a catch 22.
>
> ARIN is the Internet number registry for the region and ARIN
> policies apply to all number resources in the ARIN registry.
>
> If you feel that it would improve the situation to put the
> above into ARIN's number resource policy, then that is
> a much simpler task than making policy specific to legacy resources.

Yes, that would be simpler.  However, without clarifying also legacy 
resources I'm not sure it would gain consensus.

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