[arin-discuss] Legacy RSA from arin-announce question

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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>>
>> On 17 October 2007 ARIN will release an additional version of the
>> Registration Services Agreement ("RSA") that will be offered to those
>> organizations and individuals in the ARIN service region who hold legacy
>> Internet number resources that are not covered by any other registration
>> services agreement with ARIN. Legacy holders who sign up are guaranteed
>> the same services as ARIN members. The low annual fees charged may be
>> waived if the organization returns unused address space. This legacy RSA
>> also contractually promises ARIN Internet number resource policies
>> adopted after the contract is signed will not lessen the legacy RSA
>> address holders contract rights.
>>
>> This legacy RSA will be described during presentations at the upcoming
>> NANOG meeting, ARIN Public Policy Meeting, and ARIN Members meeting.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Raymond A. Plzak
>> President & CEO
>> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)
>>
>Hi,
>
>	I don't think this has been mentioned yet....
>
>	I took an informal survey of some of the people that had
>been granted Legacy space... Some IPs weren't currently routed.
>Some emails bounced. Some had no idea what/who ARIN was. Some
>were in their own little world and aren't on NANOG, ARIN lists,
>ISP-* lists, etc. One had moved twice and never updated his contact
>information.
>
>	So how are all the people to which this applies going to
>be contacted?


They aren't.  But this is just the first step, we still have a LOT of
work to do.  You got to see the big picture.

Next thing that really needs to happen is we need to write policy or ARIN
needs to setup a mechanism whereby AFTER IPv4 runout, people who
need IPv4 and who put the effort into finding non-routed Legacy assignments,
owned by Legacy holders who don't care if the numbers are used or not,
can get rewarded by getting those numbers assigned to them under RSA. (as
per
the utilization requirements of the RSA of course)  They would
have to provide contact info and ARIN would have to verify that the Legacy
holder is willing to give up the assignment.  Naturally, since we aren't
in post-IPv4 runout period yet, there's no immediate need for this, but
we should all be thinking about it.

After that, then we need to write a policy that says that legacy allocations
that aren't advertised can be withdrawn if the legacy holder cannot prove
to an RIR that they are being used.  This is the same as the regular
RSA.

After that, we then need to write policy that basically dictates that any
Legacy holder who is currently advertising Legacy holdings MUST update their
whois record with current data, OR risk losing their assignment.  We will
have to probably require any ISP that is advertising a Legacy assignment
to provide contact info for the legacy holder so ARIN can reach them and
inform them of the requirements.  (This assumes of course that the
advertising
ISP is itself an RSA signatory)

And finally we are just going to have to mandate that all Legacy holders
MUST
meet utilization requirements.  Basically they will have to abide by the
terms of the "regular" RSA or ARIN will de-list their allocations.

Whether ARIN then proceeds to re-assign those allocations is a different
matter -
I would assume that initially, ARIN won't.  The failure of PTR lookups on
such
address blocks should be enough to prompt the Legacy holder to get with the
program

Anyway, I think you can see where this all is heading.  Ultimately the goal
is
not to withdraw Legacy holdings - the goal is to make sure that ALL ipv4
that
is out there is efficiently utilized.  Signatories to the regular RSA are
already under utilization requirements, the Legacy holders are the
wildcards - but
in the grand scheme of things, as long as a Legacy holder is efficiently
utilizing
and can prove to us that they are doing so the same as an RSA signatory can
prove to us that they are efficiently utilizing, then that is all we can
really
do.

Ted