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On Jun 3, 2015, at 5:48 PM, Matthew Kaufman <<a href="mailto:matthew@matthew.at" class="">matthew@matthew.at</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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could certainly argue (and I might) that the records of legacy assignments were in fact entrusted to ARIN to keep, and keep updated *whether or not the community drafted policy that said such updates were disallowed*</span></div>
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<div class="">Noting just one of the significant problems with that argument being that at the time </div>
<div class="">of ARIN’s formation, the actual applicable registry policy was RFC 2050 (having been </div>
<div class="">finished just a year earlier with folks like David Conrad and Jon Postel as authors) -</div>
<div class="">it states that those obtaining addresses via transfer must "meet the same criteria as </div>
<div class="">if they were requesting an IP address directly from the Internet Registry."</div>
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<div class="">I.E., If we were maintain the exact status quo that such parties had prior to ARIN’s</div>
<div class="">formation, recognized ARIN is entrusted to maintain that, then folks probably would</div>
<div class="">not like the result - today’s transfer policy is more lenient than the transfer policy at </div>
<div class="">that point in time.</div>
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<div class="">(Thank an ARIN Advisory Council member when you next see them for all of their </div>
<div class="">efforts getting useful transfer policy in the Number Resource Policy Manual! :-)</div>
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<div class="">FYI,</div>
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
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