[arin-ppml] Draft Proposal for Needs-Free IPv4 Transfers

[Owen DeLong]

On May 10, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Mike Burns wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
>> We do not consider number resources being used by legitimate
>> successor organizations be "hijacked", regardless of whether
>> they are ARIN-issued or legacy assignments.
> 
> Whew!
> 
Note, this means legitimate acquisition of the entire functioning entity, which is not
the hijackings to which I was referring.

The transfer of the addresses as would be accomplished under 8.3 to a third party
without the transfer of the original resource holder, OTOH, would, IMHO, not be a
legitimate successor in interest and would be, essentially a hijacking unless said
transfer was processed through ARIN in compliance with 8.3.

> >Successor means an
>> entity materially acquiring all of the assets and operations
>> of another.
> 
> OK, but my term was not successor, it was "predecessor in interest"
> http://research.lawyers.com/glossary/predecessor-in-interest.html
> 
> "a person who previously held the rights or interests currently held by another" is the top definition.
> 
In this case, apparently (according to John), Nortel acquired the predecessor
in interest organizations and did actually register those through 8.2 transfers
with ARIN.

Owen