[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-171 Section 8.4 Modifications: ASN and legacy resources

[McTim]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Lindsey, Marc <mlindsey at lb3law.com> wrote:
> John,
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> Yes, I understand that’s ARIN’s policy position.   I believe, however, that
> Prof. Mueller’s recent PPML post on the issue should be given considerable
> weight when deciding whether/when to use sticks vs. carrots to develop
> policies directed at off-contract legacy number holders.

IANAL, but understand that you are!

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> On Jun 7, 2012, at 8:15 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
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>> We don't need to debate whether consensus exists or not.
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>> 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.
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So what is your "legal opinion" on the idea that the pre-ARIN
registries did have
agreements with folk they gave address blocks to, and that at least
some "legacy
folk" understood those informal agreements also applied to RIRs that came later?

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
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