[ppml] ARIN member in good standing?

[Scott Leibrand]

AFAIK, organizations who have received IP space directly from ARIN (not 
legacy allocations) and don't pay their membership dues get their 
allocations revoked and their whois record removed.  Of course that 
doesn't immediately stop them from using or routing the space, but it 
will prevent them from announcing it to new ISPs, and could eventually 
result in their existing ISPs no longer accepting the space.

I'll bet ARIN staff can comment on their actual policies on this...

-Scott

Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:
>> What happens when ARIN can no longer contact them or if they have 
>>     
> decided 
>   
>> to cut contact with ARIN?
>>     
>
> Now you are asking a more general question unrelated
> to 2006-2. If ARIN issues AS numbers or IP addresses
> to an organization and that organization ceases to
> pay ARIN subscription fees then that organization is
> failing to fulfil its social contract with the ARIN
> community. Many organizations which are run by members
> have the concept of "member in good standing" and when
> a member ceases to be in good standing, either by failing
> to pay fees or for some other reason, the organization
> removes membership benefits and eventual unilateraly
> discharges the member.
>
> Does the ARIN RSA make this social contract into
> a legal contract? If not, then should it?
>
> Quite frankly, I don't have the answers but I think
> that before we can deal with the issue of organizations
> losing contact, we need to be clear on what is the
> social contract between individual numbering resource
> users and the community of numbering resource users. 
> I think ARIN fairly represents the community and therefore
> if any social contract is cast into a legal contract,
> ARIN should be the legal representative of the community.
> But I don't believe that we have openly discussed this
> issue in terms of a social contract before. Many people
> believe that the recipient of numbering resources also
> acquires some obligations along with them, but we have
> not expressed this in a general and comprehensive way
> before.
>
> Today, the unspoken social contract is enforced in secret
> largely because organizations know that they will likely
> have to return to ARIN for numbering resources multiple 
> times. After the migration to IPv6, most organizations
> will not need additional numbering resources from ARIN and
> unless the unspoken social contract becomes embodied in
> legal contracts and written ARIN policies, there will be
> no incentive to meet the obligations of the contract.
>
> --Michael Dillon
>
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