On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 11:35 AM John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 Oct 2020, at 1:37 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[email protected]> > wrote: >> For example, I can’t imposse the condition to legacy resources transfered >> from AFRINIC to ARIN to lose the legacy status, because that’s against ARIN >> policy.
Hi Jordi, There's a rather complex set of politics in play. For the cross-region transfer policies John offered good advice: > ARIN wouldn’t find a policy proposal that required (or prohibited) “legacy > status” treatment for transferred resources to be compatible That having been said, you should be aware that there's some political spin going on here. Let me offer an outside perspective. ARIN's treatment of legacy resources boils down to: hands off. No money changes hands. ARIN does not attempt to forcibly reclaim legacy resources. ARIN acknowledges changes in contact information and DNS records. That's about it. The behavior has not been contractually normalized but it has been consistent for near a quarter century. For transfers, the rule is that ARIN registrants _receive_ number resources under the standard RSA contract which applies the policies in the NRPM. Neither document makes much distinction between legacy and non-legacy resources and together they provide no mechanism by which the new registrant can have an address block treated in the same manner ARIN treats legacy number resources. Where a recipient has sufficient legal standing to make trouble for ARIN, the rule is broken. For example, government entities in the U.S. are allowed to negotiate custom contracts with ARIN removing terms they find objectionable. Another example: in the Microsoft/Nortel matter ARIN negotiated an alternate contract with Microsoft rather than allow the bankruptcy court to proceed to rule on whether ARIN could be compelled to transfer a legacy registration without one. This is why both requiring and prohibiting some form of legacy status would result in incompatible policies. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin [email protected] https://bill.herrin.us/ _______________________________________________ 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: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
