Hi Mike,

 

No,  is not compatible, there is a nit in the text that precisely makes it 
against as John as confirmed. Nevertheless I only wanted to clarify the 
situation, I don’t think  this is a topic for a continued discussion in ARIN 
ppml.

 

 

Regards,

Jordi

@jordipalet

 

 

 

El 12/10/20 22:03, "Mike Burns" <[email protected]> escribió:

 

Hi Jordi,

 

As I mentioned on the AFRINIC list, it would not be a problem if the AFRINIC 
inter-regional transfer policy retained legacy status for inbound legacy 
resources from ARIN.  I know this because this is an option for ARIN legacy 
addresses received inter-regionally at RIPE.

So the issue of ARIN reciprocity related to retention of legacy status for 
addresses received at AFRINIC is moot.

 

I also pointed out on that list that as you say, AFRINIC policy cannot mandate 
ARIN’s retention of legacy status for outbound transfers from AFRINIC.

 

I believe the current version in last call will prove to be compliant with ARIN 
staff’s designation as a reciprocal policy.

 

I also believe very few transfer recipients care about legacy status because 
the benefits are few and the costs increasing (RPKI).

It’s an insignificant point to my mind, and delaying an AFRINIC inter-regional 
transfer proposal in last call over it is the wrong move.

 

Regards,
Mike

 

 

 

 

 

From: ARIN-PPML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of John Curran
Sent: Monday, October 12, 2020 2:35 PM
To: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[email protected]>
Cc: Eddy Kayihura <[email protected]>; Taiwo Oyewande 
<[email protected]>; [email protected]
Subject: [arin-ppml] Legacy number resources in the ARIN region (was: Re: 
Inter-RIR transfer Policy reciprocity with Afrinic_Resource Transfer Policy 
proposal)

 

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. 

 

Jordi - 

 

It’s probably worth elaborating a bit on this, because I do not know the origin 
of this statement and may have to quibble a bit with the stated reasoning.

 

ARIN’s number resource policy applies to all resources under our administration 
– and in general doesn’t reference “legacy status”  (i.e. the only section of 
ARIN’s policy manual which references legacy number resources is NRPM Section 
12 / Resource Review, and that's solely to make plain that Resource Review 
doesn’t create any authority with respect to legacy number resources that ARIN 
doesn’t already have.) 

 

ARIN defines legacy number resources with some precision: "number resources 
issued to the resource holder or its predecessor in interest prior to ARIN’s 
inception on December 22, 1997’.   This is done in the ARIN Registration 
Services Agreement (RSA) because, per direction of the ARIN Board of Trustees, 
ARIN has provided reduced fees for legacy resource holders and slightly 
different exit provision on termination for cause. 

 

Number resources are considered “legacy number resources” in the ARIN region is 
if they are held by original registrant (or its legal successor), and so it is 
highly unlikely that any resources transferred in from another region would be 
treated as legacy number resources (i.e. unless being brought into the region 
via merger/acquisition activity.)  Similarly, it probably wouldn’t make sense 
for resources transferred to another party outside the region to be treated as 
“legacy number resources” (again, aside from M&A activity), but I should note 
that we leave it to other RIRs to define their terms and conditions of their 
registration services as they see fit. 

 

I understand that some regions may treat “legacy status” as an innate property 
of the number resource block, but that certainly is not the case in the ARIN 
region - again, the only way number resources can be consider "legacy number 
resources” is while held by the original registrant or their legal successor, 
so the idea of “legacy status” for the number block itself independent of the 
resource holder is meaningless in the ARIN region. 

 

ARIN wouldn’t find a policy proposal that required (or prohibited) “legacy 
status” treatment for transferred resources to be compatible, but not due to 
policy conflict but rather because it would could create a conflict with the 
very specific definition of “legacy number resources” in our registration 
services agreement. 

 

Thanks,

/John

 

John Curran

President and CEO

American Registry for Internet Numbers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



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