[arin-ppml] IPv4 Depletion as an ARIN policy concern

[William Herrin]

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Roger Marquis <marquis at roble.com> wrote:
> Perhaps a rhetorical question but how would you propose getting back the
> legacy /8s, doled out in the dozens back in the day.  Virtually none of the
> owners, organizations like Cisco and HP, really need more than any other
> company their size (i.e., a few /24s).  Then there are all the legacy
> owners of /16s who aren't using a fraction of their addresses.  It is not
> even difficult to identify the squatters thanks to a strong correlation
> with the date of their arin whois record.

Roger,

You don't, at least not without changing the legal underpinnings on
which ARIN functions. The "legacy" addresses were handed out without
any provisions for the involuntarily canceling the registration. It's
been that way so long that the doctrine of laches comes into play even
if someone could find a sound legal theory taking the addresses back.

ARIN could probably get away with escheating addresses that the
registrant of record declines to defend. They could certainly get away
with demanding payment for RDNS delegation. They might possibly be
able to get away with subtracting your legacy space from your
justifiable non-legacy space. But that's about the limit.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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