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

[Jeremy Anthony Kinsey]

On Oct 8, 2007, at 11:13 AM, Dean Anderson wrote:
>
>
> ARIN has an obligation to honor those government agreements.  ARIN has
> honored those agreements and ARIN's obligations under those agreements
> for more than 10 years.
>

Understood...

So who has the "obligation" to pay for this?

> None of the registrations are property of ARIN. ARIN doesn't have
> 'title' to the IP blocks either.  The blocks and the registration
> records belong to the government, and ARIN will have to transfer the
> registrations to the successor of ARIN as its final obligation.

But ARIN, more importantly it's members  apparently "own" the  
"obligation" to pay for the management of these blocks, correct?  I'm  
not sure I understand how any organization could possibly expect it's  
members to pay for obligations that they have no benefit in...

>
> Ok. Fair enough. Can you ask the Counsel the prepare a formal  
> statement
> on ARIN's obligations to the Legacy Holder's through the government
> agreements with the Legacy Holders?

To that end I would also hope that the burden for paying for such  
obligation be defined, ie., who is paying for these "obligations"?


Regards,
Jeremy Anthony Kinsey
  e-mail: jer at mia.net
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