[arin-discuss] [ppml] Counsel statement on Legacy assignments?

[Edward Lewis]

At 11:15 -0400 10/8/07, Dean Anderson wrote:

>Except Legacy's aren't lacking an agreement.  You have paper records of
>these agreements with the government. Do you mean to deny the fact that
>the Legacy's have an agreement with the government that ARIN is
>obligated to honor?

Quoting: http://www.arin.net/meetings/minutes/ARIN_XIX/ppm1_transcript.html

"MR. RYAN: Well, from a legal perspective, this is why I love you 
guys. I have never seen the United States government give away 
anything without any strings attached before. And so there's a real 
question in my mind whether -- with regard to some of the legacy 
address holders who received early addresses who were in the Defense 
or academic community but held Defense contracts, whether the 
issuance of space at that time was pursuant to traditional government 
theories of government-furnished material or government-furnished 
equipment. The paper record is really pretty strange when one looks 
at it. And it does appear -- to the extent that I've had an 
opportunity to look at some of the paperwork -- that it's one of the 
few times in the history of governments that they gave away something 
seemingly without a clear set of strings attached to it. ..."

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