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

[Martin Hannigan]

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Stephen Sprunk <stephen at sprunk.org> wrote:
> 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.

In Prop-171, there is a requirement for accurate _and verified_ WHOIS
input. I would expect that "a" service contract would be developed to
support the intent of 171 and 172. This is a good problem to have.

Best,

-M<