[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-175 Delete Section 8.2

[David Farmer]

On 6/20/12 17:38 CDT, Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Astrodog wrote:
>> I'm curious as to the rest of the community's thoughts on this
>> problem. The way 8.2 is written currently, it seems to provide a
>> relatively easy "end run" around meeting the 8.3 requirements, and
>> without ARIN spending quite a bit of time figuring out exactly what it
>> is someone bought, I'm not sure there's a way to tell if an equipment
>> sale was performed to enable an 8.2 transfer or if it's just part of
>> transferring an ongoing operation.
>
> I believe that John's comments about court actions on sales and
> transfers provide some guidance on this. I suspect that even if we pass
> this policy it may not pass muster with the courts.
>
> It's a tricky business. I've seen sales of all customers without the
> equipment. The purchaser came in and installed their own preferred
> platform in place at the premises. The selling corporation didn't exist
> once the transaction was complete.  Most courts would rule that the
> relevant assets were transferred.
>
> I would like to hear from John, but I suspect this may be a matter where
> it's best to leave this as an operational situation for the ARIN staff
> to deal with. I don't think we can ratchet this down in policy without
> just making their job harder.

Yes, we have looked at this a few times in the past.

But what Harrison is suggesting is to go to a more simplified transfer 
process make everything 8.3.  But, this mean liberalizing IPv6 
transfers.  Logically we could make 8.2 only apply to IPv6, but not sure 
what that gets us.

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