[ppml] Revised Policy Proposal Resource Reclamation

[Rich Emmings]

Even if both conditions were met, I'm not sure ARIN has authority, as it's 
legacy space and no RSA exists.   A random email from a business I don't do 
business with demanding something usually gets filed in my SPAM folder.  I'd 
hope anyone with a large number asset at least knows who/what ARIN is, but 
it's not impossible for someone ARIN familiar to leave a given shop, and 
leave behind those clueless.

Short version: I can't see the AND being a sure enough condition, because 
the number might be ignoring ARIN, and has no business relationship with 
ARIN, barring some sort of global policy demanding you register with your 
local RIR and sign a RSA.


Are there abandon assets out there.  I'd say it's a sure bet.  If it's an 
ARIN asset, then ARIN does have authority over it.  Otherwise, I think only 
IANA can revoke.  Same for underutilized assets.


It's messy, but it can always be made messier.


On Tue, 1 May 2007, Owen DeLong wrote:

> Right.  Hence the "AND" term for requiring that both the space is unrouted
> and that the POC is unreachable.  If both of these conditions are met, it
> is not unreasonable to presume that the addresses have been abandoned.