[ppml] Policy Proposal: Authentication of Legacy Resources

[Kevin Loch]

Dean Anderson wrote:
> Someone already said that ARIN is just the steward of records.  I'd like
> to add to that and point out that ARIN doesn't own the registrations
> records any more than SRI or NSI owned the registration books before
> ARIN existed. Even more specifically, ARIN is an agent of the IANA,
> which is now a function of the US Department of Commerce. Legacy holders
> already have a relationship with the DoC through earlier agents, and do
> not require a new relationship with ARIN. 

So to clean up this mess we should lobby DoC to require annual renewals
and new contracts just like they did with domain names?

- Kevin