[arin-ppml] A compromise on legacy space?

[Marshall Eubanks]

On Sep 10, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

> Leo Bicknell wrote:
>> I believe ARIN can stop providing whois, in-addr.arpa, free acceess
>> for two members to the public policy meeting and other services to
>> legacy holders who terminate their contract.
>
> There we agree.  I'd also say ARIN could do the same for any legacy
> resources held by anyone who has not signed a contract at all.
>
>> I do not believe ARIN can dump the entry from their internal  
>> database or assign the same numbers to someone else.
>>
>
> I do not see any law or contract that would prevent ARIN from  
> assigning
> or allocating those numbers to someone else.
>
> Numbers are not property.  ARIN is selling the service of providing
> uniqueness of registration, not numbers.  If the numbers are no longer
> registered to party X, they can be freely assigned or allocated to  
> party Y.
>


But how, in that case, do they guarantee uniqueness ?

Regards
Marshall

>> I have no issues with limiting the entire scope of my original post  
>> to IPv4 only.  Thus group 1 would include any entity with IPv4  
>> addresses under an RSA, and not include IPv6 or ASN holders.
>>
>
> Why exclude ASNs?  My employer has legacy IPv4 space but an ARIN ASN.
> Which group do you think we should fall into?  What is the  
> justification
> for either rolling our legacy space under the RSA or keeping the  
> legacy
> space under LRSA while we have an ASN under RSA?  You haven't  
> convinced
> me that either action is fair.
>
> S
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