[arin-ppml] Legacy number resources in the ARIN region (was: Re: Draft Policy ARIN-2021-8: Deprecation of the 'Autonomous System Originations' Field)

[John Curran]

Folks -

It’s important to note that these references shared below are _not_ based on a common definition of “legacy number resource"  –

ARIN considers a legacy number resource to be one that’s held by the original registrant (or their legal successor, e.g. due to merger) and that was issued by one of ARIN’s predecessor registries (NSI/InterNIC, GSI, SRI, Jon) and thus transferred to ARIN at the time of our formation.

ARIN extends basic registry services w/o fee or contract to legacy resource holders, and offers them the opportunity if they wish to enter into an RSA with ARIN, becoming a member and receiving all the same services as every other customer, ability to vote in elections etc. only with a special cap on their total registry maintenance fees (currently of $175/year, increasing $25/yr) that’s applied regardless of total size of IPv4 number resource holdings.

This is done in recognition that these legacy resource holders were involved in the earliest days of the Internet.

I understand that in other region "legacy number resource” may have other meanings, and in fact may not even be related to the present day party with the rights to the address block.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers


On 26 Apr 2022, at 10:24 PM, Andrew Dul <andrew.dul at quark.net<mailto:andrew.dul at quark.net>> wrote:
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Ripe's published services to legacy holders is documented here

https://www.ripe.net/manage-ips-and-asns/legacy-resources/ripe-ncc-services-to-legacy-internet-resource-holders

APNIC's calls these historical resources and its policies are noted here.  APNIC will also require historical resource holders to become members effects Jan 1, 2023.

https://help.apnic.net/s/article/Historical-resources

https://blog.apnic.net/2021/03/26/rpki-services-now-available-to-apnic-historical-resource-holders/

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