[ARIN-consult] Consultation on Transfer Fees Now Open

[John Curran]

On Sep 15, 2016, at 1:23 PM, Jason Schiller <jschiller at google.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> Yes of course.  My thinking was Company A says they 
> have clean providence for block B.  Buyer C can validate
> with ARIN that block B has clean providence, and that 
> at the current time, it does belong to Company A.

Jason - 

That is effectively what we do; ARIN confirms that the parties 
who make use of the STLS service as a source for “block B”
are the ones who presently hold the rights to that block and
that such rights may be transferred to another party.  We then
allow the source organization (if they wish) to be included in
the STLS listing of available number resources for transfer.

> My thinking is wrt a particular IP address, 
> If ARIN has determined that the providence is good,
> then it will continue to be good through every ARIN 
> recognized transfer.

Short of a very unusual event, that will be the case for the
entire address block.  (Obviously if we determine later that
fraudulent representations where made in asserting the
rights in question, that would change things.) 

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN