PPML community - Without speaking for or against any given policy proposal, it is necessary to respond to several of Sandra's remarks as they do not reflect the actual structure of the Internet Number Registry System....
On Apr 6, 2014, at 11:49 AM, [email protected] wrote: > It they do not approach ARIN, and they keep their assumed property > rights, they hope in the future, for the benefit of being able to do > whatever they want with their IP's, > ... To the extent that the community feels that registry policy should be applicable in general to the management of address blocks in the region, then the rights afforded to address holders must definitely be a subset of what most folks would consider "property rights." In particular, to the extent that it is desirable to have community-developed policy applicable to the _administration_ of IPv4 address space rather than simply to the _assignment_ of address space is a question worthy of discussion given the imminent depletion of the regional IPv4 free pool), but absent any change in direction, ARIN must hold to the position set at its establishment and its in foundational documents that all address space in the registry is subject to community-develop number resource policy. > Perhaps at some point some party with more at stake, will force the > property right issue in court, That actually could be quite beneficial, as would help in providing further certainty regarding the ability of ARIN to maintain the registry per the wishes and policies developed by the community. Parties without any agreement with ARIN asserting rights against particular entries in the registry have a rather interesting task before them, however, so it may take some time before this particular event occurs... ARIN is part of a Internet number registry system which includes the IANA and the other regional registries; we collectively administer one registry of address space with each block associated with a single address holder, i.e. each block is globally unique; one important aspect of this is that an address block within a given regional registry remains within that registry unless there is a mutual agreement that it is administered by another RIR. Parties that undertake transfers would be well-advised to read the policy documents of the Regional Internet registries which reflect these same principles. Thanks! /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
