[arin-discuss] pre-ARIN IP allocation legal rights

[Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET]

> 
> > lawyers about whats implicit, explicit, inferred, or "No one did
> > anything for such a long time, why now?"
> >
> > 	The last one sorta is something I wonder. ARIN was established
> > in December of 1997. Why, 10+ years later, have they decided to
> > start this process? Shouldn't it have been started sometime in 1Q98?
> > Theres been 20 some odd ARIN meetings, 8-10 Board of Trustee Meetings
> > a year.
> 
> Perhaps there was an assumption that people would do the right thing  
> without having to be forced?  This used to be a lot more common  
> behavior.
> 
	On one of my blocks I *HAD* to have done "the right thing"
as you say...... supposedly.  But oddly the dates just don't add up.

	Between 5/1993 and 4/1995, 39 LEGACY blocks were allocated later
to be picked up by ARIN as the RIR. I have a /24 in that block. IANA
deemed LEGACY designation to be :

LEGACY: allocated by the central Internet Registry (IR) prior to the 
	Regional Internet Registries (RIRs). This address space is now 
	administered by individual RIRs as noted, including maintenance 
	of WHOIS Directory and reverse DNS records. Assignments from these 
	blocks are distributed globally on a regional basis.

	Between 5/1993 and 4/1997, according to IANA, ARIN was
directly ALLOCATED (I would think BEFORE use) 8 blocks. Another of
my /24's is in there. IANA deems ALLOCATED as :

ALLOCATED: delegated entirely to specific RIR as indicated.

	What seems odd, though, is that ARIN didn't come into
being until December 1997!

	So is that second block "legacy" or "allocated"? Did ARIN
supply it before they existed or did IANA do things on ARINs behalf? 
Or is IANA just WRONG?

	(FYI: According to IANA the next ARIN allocation didn't
happen until 2 /8's were done in 7/2000)

			Tuc/TBOH