On Wed, Jul 27, 2022 at 2:30 PM Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected]> wrote:
> In message < > camdxq5n_x84p4_6bkzkpemslq2ewjjagexwo+fe3bwosj7d...@mail.gmail.com>, > Martin Hannigan <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Similarly, when GlobalCrossing was bought by Level3, there was no > >> sudden requirement that every record within ARIN that used to say > >> "GlobalCrossing" now say "Level3" (I mean Qwest) (no wait, I mean > >> CenturyLink) (shoot, no, now I mean Lumen). > >> > > > >And those companies don't die. They get adopted. In my $dayjob we still > >receive payments and do agreements with XO, MCI and Level3. They are > indeed > >wholly owned by another, but the corporate entities continue to exist. > >Those records are likely to be valid in many cases. Untangling such vast > >enterprises is more expensive than simply changing who owns the shares and > >the branding. It is quite common from my view as a lord of telecom land. > > > >This is not a task for ARIN. Members will pay dearly for such a time > waste. > >No thank you. > > I agree. Great. [ clip the non issue ] The other and entirely separate issue I have raised is whether or not ARIN > currently knows, or currently even cares to know whether or not any given > ARIN member still exists, legally speaking. > > This, I believe, should not be in the least controversial. What good is a > signed RSA agreement if the member is dead? And is it a Good Thing or a > profoundly Bad Thing if unknown interlopers are usurping, without any > legal authority, the ARIN-issued number resources of a deceased person or > a deceased corporation? > > There are a lot of things that ARIN should clearly not waste its time on. > Knowing whether its members are alive or dead is not one of them. How big [real] is the problem? One body? Or five hundred? YMMV, -M<
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