[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-174 Policies Apply to All Resources in the Registry

[William Herrin]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:21 PM, John Curran <jcurran at arin.net> wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:07 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Chris Grundemann
>> <cgrundemann at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> You seem to keep repeating this mantra and while I am not a lawyer, I
>>> am curious; how does the lack of a contract give one party infinite
>>> rights and another no rights?
>>
>> The Nortel judge ruled that Nortel had exclusive rights to its legacy
>> addresses.
>
> Correct, although you omitted: "...only after the sales agreement and
> the order were modified to noted the presence of an LRSA between ARIN
> and Microsoft for the specified resources"; i.e. the result is not
> dispositive as it was the result of consent of all involved.  If you
> wish to continue to repeat it as a legal theory, feel free, but folks
> ought to know what actually happened as well.

Hi John,

My understanding is that while noting that Microsoft and ARIN had
entered a contract, the final order reaffirmed that Nortel had the
exclusive right to sell its addresses. Without any language suggesting
subordination to ARIN. If you have a copy handy, we can go to the text
and check.

Regards,
Bill Herrin




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