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

[Steven Ryerse]

I got my info about the Microsoft deal mostly from the press and blogs and I acknowledge that those sources are not always accurate or complete.  My question then John would be, when I apply for my 3 /24's next month thru your normal process,  will I be able to sign the same deal as Microsoft got (again I've never read it) and will I be able to get the same terms Microsoft got?  The press said they signed an LSRA.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jimmy Hess [mailto:mysidia at gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:23 PM
To: Scott Leibrand
Cc: Steven Ryerse; arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-174 Policies Apply to All Resources in the Registry

On 6/21/12, Scott Leibrand <scottleibrand at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Steven Ryerse
[snip]
> 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, there is a policy matter, in that they signed a different agreement, even if the only difference was "fees";  it's still
something different they were allowed to sign.   The NRPM specifically
indicates  that annual fees  maintenance  fees are charged  according to an ISP schedule or an end-user schedule...


I find it a little bit suspect that MS were allowed to sign a LRSA on this;  when transfers required signing the RSA, according to the NRPM,  and the LRSA was a different agreement,  then  others were required to sign.

Does ARIN treat all organizations that receive service equally, fair and non-discriminatively,  OR  are some resource holders allowed to agreement terms that provide them more protection or better treatment from ARIN than other  organizations  ?

E.g. Did  ARIN give   Microsoft  preferential treatment,  or  do  all
members have the option of signing the LRSA to transfer resources from a legacy holder?

Is this option clearly shown somewhere on ARIN's website?

> -Scott
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-JH