[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-172 Additional definition for NRPM Section 2 - Legacy Resources

[Bill Sandiford]

So just out of curiosity, and certainly not proposing this, would do you expect the outcome would be if the community passed a policy that stated that ARIN would no longer maintain registrations in its databases for registrants with which no contract exists?

Bill

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From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk
Sent: June-07-12 2:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-172 Additional definition for NRPM Section 2 - Legacy Resources

On 07-Jun-12 10:15, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> We don't need to debate whether consensus exists or not. 
> When it comes to legacy resources, community consensus is irrelevant. A company without a contract has no legal or any other kind of obligation to ARIN consensus processes. 

True, but in return, the community has no legal obligation to provide slots in the community's (i.e. ARIN's) registration database if legacy registrants do not sign a contract for that service, which in turn obligates them to follow (most of) the community's rules.  Establishing such obligations, in both directions, is the entire point of contracts.

To date, the community has graciously provided free slots in its database as long as legacy registrants voluntarily follow the community's rules, but that could end at any time if the community gets sufficiently annoyed by freeloading legacy registrants' bogus claims of entitlement and exceptionality.

The squeaky wheel doesn't get oiled; it gets replaced.

S

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