[arin-ppml] Advisory Council Meeting Results - March 2011

[Gary Buhrmaster]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 00:40, Scott Leibrand <scottleibrand at gmail.com> wrote:
....
> I have heard from a number of people the concern that some legacy
> holders are reluctant to sign an LRSA because they perceive it to
> require giving up rights to use the address space as they see fit.
...
> So I think the question is whether the community thinks it would be
> worthwhile for ARIN to develop a process to validate an address
> holder's legitimacy, the same way they do for the LRSA today, but then
> simply provide some sort of pre-qualification document to the holder
> while he goes out looking for a party to transfer the block to.
> Ideally, IMO, this pre-qualification could be upgraded to a full LRSA
> with just a couple signatures (i.e. when the 8.3 transfer transaction
> is otherwise approved).
>
> Thoughts?

Would an organization that wants to preserve some (potential
perceived) rights by not signing an LRSA intend to use the ARIN
transfer process?

It is probably true that everyone has a price, and at a high
enough offer an organizations point of view can be altered,
but if the offers of compensation that use the ARIN transfer
process get high enough, those that were previously reluctant
will swam to ARIN to sign the LRSA to "cash in" quickly while
they still can (if they ever intended to so).

Gary