On Oct 5, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Martin Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Let me give you a real world example.
>
> 1. Buy rights to use addresses in any quantity you believe you need
> 2. Use those addresses as you need them, assuming the agreement you made with
> the party works properly
> 3. Get an LOA from the documented owner
> 4. Bypass ARIN entirely
> 5. Use the addresses.
>
> How do you think we should solve that problem?
It is not my job to determine whether the example above is a major problem (or
not) -
that’s for the community to assess, but I do want to highlight some aspects
that result
from situations (such as the one described above) of which everyone on the list
might
not be aware -
1) While the network operations confusion that can result is fairly well
understood to
those on this list, what may not be apparently is that there are others who
rely upon
the registry (e.g. researchers, anti-spam folks, law enforcement, etc.) and
for whom
address blocks being used as described above results in real impacts to
their ability
to rely upon the registry, and thus accomplish their job.
2) Because the “documented owner” doesn’t ever update the registry, a number of
creative schemes are possible whereby the documented owner gets paid from
multiple parties for the same rights and then effectively disappears with
their
proceeds leaving the individual buyers to fight it out. There are ways to
reduce
this risk (e.g. escrow arrangements, guarantees with adequate backing, etc.)
but the need for these (and probability of circumvention) goes up
dramatically
absent an updated registry. Likewise for the case where the “documented
owner” doesn’t actually have a documentation trail that would support their
ability to sell the rights to even one party, but that is not uncovered
since the
documentation never gets reviewed by the registry.
I have not seen a clear expression of these cases on the list, and felt it
important
to describe them for those who may not have first hand involvement. It is true
that
under 2015-7, parties would be able to obtain more address space then presently
allowed and to so do based upon an officer representation, so the risks that
such
a change would bring about should be carefully weighted by the community against
the situations outlined above which exist under the status quo.
Thanks,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
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