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

[Brian Jones]

+1 Scott's comments.

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On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 5:23 PM Scott Leibrand <scottleibrand at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Posted from my personal account - see X-Disclaimer header.
> > Joe Provo / Gweep / Earthling
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