[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-12: M&A Legal Jurisdiction Exclusion

[Scott Leibrand]

Allowing entities outside the ARIN region to continue holding addresses originally assigned to an ARIN-region organization to which the non-ARIN-region entity is a legal successor seems reasonable to me, and less fraught than allowing IPv6 and IPv4 waitlist space to be M&A transferred to another RIR. 

Support.

Scott

> On Jul 15, 2019, at 1:32 PM, Joe Provo <ppml at rsuc.gweep.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> <ARIN AC hat but using registered posting address>
> Hey folks,
> 
> Like several other proposals, we seem to have been
> hit by the summer slump considering the following.
> 
> There was a single posted objection, and it isn't
> clear if lack of activity stems from 
> - uninterest
> - interest in seeing 2019-13 move instead
> - interest in seeing 2019-4 move instead
> - something else
> 
> Thanks in advance for more input!
> 
> Joe
> </ARIN AC hat>
> 
>> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:02:14PM -0400, ARIN wrote:
>> On 16 May 2019, the ARIN Advisory Council (AC) accepted "ARIN-prop-272: 
>> M&A Legal Jurisdiction Exclusion" as a Draft Policy.
>> 
>> Draft Policy ARIN-2019-12 is below and can be found at:
>> https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/drafts/2019_12/
> [snip]
>> Draft Policy ARIN-2019-12: M&A Legal Jurisdiction Exclusion
>> 
>> Problem Statement:
>> 
>> M&A activity sometimes results in a surviving legal entity that is not 
>> in ARIN service region, but may prefer to continue the pre-existing 
>> relationship with ARIN.
>> 
>> Example: Imagine a case where a global company has decided to 
>> discontinue service in the ARIN service region (shuttering ARIN region 
>> offices laying off ARIN region employees, and canceling ARIN region 
>> customers) and repurpose the network resources and number resources in 
>> the rest of its global footprint. During restructuring the company 
>> concentrates its holdings in its European subsidiary, and then dissolved 
>> its US legal entity.
>> 
>> Imagine a case where a global company has decided to divest its service 
>> in the ARIN region (selling all ARIN region offices, all ARIN region 
>> network assets, all ARIN service region customers, all number resources 
>> used in the ARIN (associated with previous noted sale of network and 
>> customers), but retaining ARIN issued resources in use outside of the 
>> ARIN service region. During restructuring the company concentrates its 
>> holdings which are not in us in the ARIN service region in its European 
>> subsidiary, and then sells off its US legal entity (including the 
>> network, customers, addresses in use, etc) dissolved its US legal entity.
>> 
>> Policy Statement:
>> 
>> Add the following to section 8.2
>> 
>> M&A activity resulting in the surviving legal entity which is not 
>> incorporated in the ARIN service region will be permitted to hold number 
>> resources directly allocated or assigned by ARIN.
>> 
>> Comments:
>> 
>> Timetable for implementation: Immediate
>> 
>> Anything Else This proposal may be overtaken by a more general approach 
>> to ARIN membership legal jurisdiction exclusion
> 
> 
> 
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