[arin-ppml] clarification of Board actions Feb 2 and Mar 18, 2009

[Kevin Kargel]

> > From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> > Behalf Of Lee Howard
> > Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:07 AM
> > To: ppml at arin.net
> > Subject: [arin-ppml] clarification of Board actions Feb 2 and Mar 18,
> 2009
> >
> >
> >
> > The community has requested clarification from the Board on
> > the series of events and motivations that led to the emergency draft
> > proposal
> > 2009-1: Transfer Policy.
> >
> > At its February 6, 2009 meeting,  the Board accepted the recommendation
> of
> > the
> > Advisory Council, finding that the process had been followed, and
> adopted
> > policy proposal 2008-6: Emergency Transfer Policy for IPv4 Addresses.
> The
> > Board has been concerned for some time that the lack of a liberalized
> > transfer
> > policy would create legal risk: that we had not provided a mechanism to
> > improve
> > the efficient utilization of previously-allocated resources, and that
> this
> > risk was
> > significant enough to jeopardize ARIN's ability to fulfill its
> stewardship
> > mission.
> >
> 
 Could someone please explain to me what legal risk there is from ARIN
 continuing to fulfill it's mission without creating an IP market?  
 

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