[ppml] Incentive to legacy address holders

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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>From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of
>Leo Bicknell
>Sent: Monday, July 09, 2007 3:34 PM
>To: ppml at arin.net
>Subject: Re: [ppml] Incentive to legacy address holders
>
>
>In a message written on Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 09:38:21PM -0500, 
>James Hess wrote:
>> As I see it, there should be some global policy action 
>encouraged, not just any
>> one RIR taking it upon itself to try to reclaim inactive legacy
>> blocks, since the
>> matter of  lost legacy resources unused for decades need to be reclaimed
>> outright regardless of region, to avoid wasting blocks of 
>addresses, legacy
>> blocks that are dormant and unused should be reclaimed in all regions,
>
>You are aware that at least APNIC passed a policy to require all
>of the legacy space holders in their region to sign a current RSA
>and (as far as I can tell) abide by all current APNIC rules?
>
>http://www.apnic.net/docs/policy/proposals/prop-018-v001.html
>
>When the records were transferred to RIPE, RIPE made the statement
>that to modify them the user would have to sign a RIPE service
>agreement.  I can't find anyone that states the success level they
>have had with that policy.
>
>http://www.arin.net/registration/erx/faq.html
>
>I can't quickly find any information on the ERX activities to LACNIC
>or AfriNIC.
>
>In terms of global policy though, at least two RIR's have already
>taken action on their own, and the action is to sign a current
>contract and abide by all current rules.  I'm not sure those RIR's would
>be interested a global policy that does something different at this
>point.

I think it very likely that since such a heavy-handed, dictatorial
policy has worked for them, that the global response would be to adopt it
since it is apparently working, and require all legacy space holders 
in ARIN's region to sign a current RSA.

Ted