[arin-ppml] Analogies

[William Herrin]

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> On May 2, 2011, at 12:33 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>> On Apr 30, 2011, at 5:39 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>>> I will suggest that an attempt by ARIN to charge $100/year under a
>>>> contract simplified to, "We agree to keep your whois data and RDNS
>>>> delegations intact as is for one year increments until either of us
>>>> choose to cancel this contract" would meet with at most mild
>>>> resistance from the legacy registrants. It would also, IMHO, provide
>>>> an excellent way to weed out the abandoned registrations.
>>>
>>> That seems like a reasonable summary of the current LRSA.
>>
>> If counsel agrees with that assessment (he doesn't and you didn't
>> check) then start summarizing and put the result in front of me,
>> without all the excess baggage in the current LRSA.
>
> Please specifically define the term excess baggage and show
> me in what ways it conflicts with the above summary.

Excess baggage:

Section 9. Property rights are immaterial to the provision of whois
and dns services yet the registrant is asked to quit any such claims
as a condition of the LRSA.

Section 8. Annual audit. Routine auditing of the registrant's use of
IP addresses is immaterial to the provision of whois and dns services.

Section 7. Current and future policies. Compliance with tomorrow's
NRPM is immaterial to the provision of whois and dns services.

Section 14e. Nothing in my "summary" requires ARIN to discontinue
whois and rdns services should the registrant decide to stop paying.
14e not only requires ARIN to discontinue services, it requires ARIN
to revoke the resources, putting them into a process resulting in
reallocation to someone else.


And that's just the large and blatantly obvious ways (to anyone with
basic English comprehension skills) in which the LRSA is nothing like
my "summary." Lots more devils in the details of individual sentences.

-Bill


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