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

[Keith W. Hare]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net 
> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Ron Cleven
> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 9:23 PM
> To: arin-discuss at arin.net

> In any case, I give up.  There appear to be some people in 
> this discussion that are shilling for legacy interests and 
> large entrenched ISP's.  I suspect they have all the cards 
> and all the power (and almost all the IP's).  As it it 
> currently operating, ARIN is complicit in this atrocious 
> anti-competitive behavior.

I'm not sure who you think is shilling for legacy interests and large
entrenched ISP's.

My viewpoint is that as an IPv4 legacy address holder, ARIN has never
asked me to pay fees and so I haven't paid any fees for my IPv4
addresses.  When ARIN comes up with a reasonable RSA and reasonable fees
for IPv4 legacy address holders, I don't expect to have an issue with
signing and paying. For the record, I only have a /24, am not an ISP,
and don't represent any ISP. I suspect that my viewpoint is similar to
that of some number of other small IPv4 legacy address holders, but
don't know that for sure.

Another viewpoint is that there may be enough unused IPv4 space in some
of the large IPv4 legacy address holders to ward off the IPv4 runout for
a couple of months, in which case it might be worth attempting to
reclaim some of the unused address space.

Then there is Dean Anderson's position, which seems to be based on past
injustices.  Typically, I don't understand Dean's positions or the 20
years of history behind those positions. 

In the six months or so that I've been watching the ARIN PPML and now
the ARIN-Discuss lists, I've seen a number of people attempting to come
up with reasonable solutions to the issues.  There is also some amount
of emotion, quick answers to the wrong questions, off-the-topic
digressions, etc.

As far as I can tell, the people who have the most influence are the
people who put together coherent, well written proposals, regardless of
the size of their employer.

Keith

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