[arin-ppml] Definition of a legacy resource?

[Milton L Mueller]

Seems to me the defining characteristic of "legacy" is its contractual status. I.e., legacy allocations simply are allocated blocks that are not under an RSA or the equivalent in another RIR (doesn't matter whether they came from InterNIC, Postel, RIPE-NCC, etc..). The only tough issue here is whether you want to include resources under an LRSA as 'legacy' or not.

Milton L. Mueller
Professor, Syracuse University School of Information Studies
Internet Governance Project
http://blog.internetgovernance.org 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On
> Behalf Of Martin Hannigan
> Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2012 11:31 AM
> To: Scott Leibrand
> Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Definition of a legacy resource?
> 
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Scott Leibrand
> <scottleibrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Jun 1, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Martin Hannigan <hannigan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Does everyone agree that this is an adequate definition of a legacy
> address?
> >>
> >> "A legacy number resource is an IPv4 address or Autonomous System
> >> number that was issued by an Internet Registry (InterNIC or its
> >> predecessors) prior to ARIN's inception on Dec. 22, 1997."
> >
> > And has not been returned, reclaimed, revoked, or transferred.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> >A legacy number resource may be covered under LRSA. Resources covered
> under RSA are no longer considered legacy.
> >
> 
> 
> I think that's a policy statement, not a definition.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -M<
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