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

[Owen DeLong]

> We seem to what to place blame for something here. I blame us the community, we muddied the waters. We were trying to implement policy as part of contract language, "Legacy Resources will not be reclaimed solely for lack of use".  This should just plain and simply the policy, not conditional on signing a contact, not implemented through contract language, but in the NRPM.
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But there's more to it.

The policy should also state that an 8.3 transfer of resources puts an end to their legacy status. Resources transferred under 8.3 must become non-legacy resources after the transfer.

> Staff and Counsel should have the operational flexibility to do what they need to do with contracts without creating implications for policy. If there were policy issues created, and I not saying there was, it is our fault not theirs.  I will agree there was the appearance of a problem created, but again this was created by improperly tying a policy issue into a contract clause.
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> This is hindsight, but lets learn from it and fix the problem. "Legacy Resources will not be reclaimed solely for lack of use" should just become policy in the NRPM.

I'm not wild about this, but not entirely opposed, either so long as the legacy status does not survive an 8.3 transfer.

Ideally, it should not survive an 8.2 transfer, either, but that might be a harder nut to crack.

Owen