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

[William Herrin]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Scott Leibrand <scottleibrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> ARIN has publicly stated that Microsoft had to follow the policy that
> requires needs justification, just as any other transfer recipient would
> have to do.  AFAIK (and I'm only aware of what's been publicly posted here
> to PPML and at public policy meetings) the only thing non-standard about the
> Nortel-Microsoft transfer was that Microsoft signed the LRSA instead of the
> RSA.  And since the only real remaining difference between the two is the
> fee schedule, that is definitely not a policy matter.

Well, that and the supposed contractual assurance that the addresses
can never be reclaimed for non-use. They had to need the addresses at
some instant in time after which, according to the LRSA, that was no
longer required.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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