[arin-ppml] Borders sells their /16 block

[Matthew Kaufman]

On Dec 7, 2011, at 10:32 AM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> The original sale order would have transferred Nortel's rights and
> interests "free and clear" to Microsoft.  ARIN filed an objection 
> with the court, and the parties were able to work out an amended 
> sale and court order which was satisfactory.  The parties (Nortel 
> and Microsoft) jointed submitted a revised sales order that said the 
> addresses "will be placed under a registration services agreement 
> (LRSA) between ARIN and Microsoft", and draft court order that read 
> "For avoidance of doubt, this Order shall not affect the LRSA 
> and Purchaser's rights in Internet Numbers transferred pursuant to 
> this Order shall be subject to the terms of the LRSA".  Microsoft 
> entered into an RSA (Registration Services Agreement) with ARIN, 
> which delineated their rights applicable to their use of the number
> resources. In summary, this case's outcome was that it was in all 
> parties interests to deal only with those rights that the Internet 
> number registry system (in this case ARIN) indicated were available 
> to the address holder, as opposed to a sale "free and clear" as has
> been otherwise suggested.
> 
> 

Sure, but just as is suggested by footnote 9 (iirc) in the current case, the "need" requirements specified by policy may not have fully applied. (We don't know, of course, because the needs justification that may or may not have been provided by Microsoft in that case isn't part of the transparency provided by ARIN to the public.)

I'd sign an LRSA too if I could dictate all the exceptions to policy I'd like to take.


Matthew Kaufman

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