In my my immediately prior email on this topic I neglected to mention three important and entirely relevant points.
First, I should clarify the reason for my interest in this topic of dead resource-holding organizations. As some but not all here may be aware, I personally have invested quite a lot of time and effort over the years in finding and exposing Bad Actors on the Internet. In the many years that I have been doing this entirely uncompensated work, I have quite certainly noticed what appears to me to be a marked correlation between dead legal entities and the various kinds of Bad Actors that I seek and too often find on the Internet. Based on that, I cannot help but believe that opportunities for mischief on the Internet would be reduced, to the benefit of all, if ARIN and the other RIRs were to be somewhat more pro- active in recycling the number resources of dead entities. Second, with respect to the rather superficial legal analysis included in my prior email, that analysis was and is hampered somewhat by a key point of ignorance on my part. Specifically, it is unclear to me if ARIN staff (or policy) requires that resource-holding entities sign and return a fresh new RSA... presumably having the latest and greatest RSA version number... at every point in time when such an entity has requsted (or is assigned) some new allocation of number resources. Can any kind soul enlighten me on this point? This is no small matter. In relation specifically to CENTA-3, if ARIN staff has been in the habit of giving new resource allocations to old entities _without_ simultaneously requiring the old entities to enter into a fresh new RSA agreement, then the only signed RSA agreement that is legally binding upon this now-defunct entity, CENTA-3, is whichever version of the RSA was current as of 2006-08-22. If on the other hand, ARIN staff has been consistant if requiring a fresh new RSA�to be signed at each point in time where new resources were granted, then the specific RSA version which was current as of 2011-10-04 is the one that is legally binding upon both parties. This makes a difference, because the exact wording of what is now Section 10 of the most recent RSA version (12.0) most probably has changed, over time, and may have been markedly different in 2006 than it was in 2011 and vise versa. Third and lastly, I am compelled to express my profound dismay that ARIN staff appears to be playing a somewhat elaborate game of "hide the ball" when it comes to making available older / non-current versions of the RSA. Reasonably diligent efforts to find these older RSA versions, by me, and on the ARIN web site, were consistantly met with either web site "not found" errors or by redirections to the current and latest version (12.0) of the RSA, which is not at all what I was seeking. Needless to say, the inability to obtain copies of older versions of the RSA makes it literally impossible to form any reasoned opinion about what various organizations, dead or otherwise, may or may not have been contractually bound to do or not do. Frankly, this all seems rather deliberate. There are significant numbers of historical documents available in the "vault" section of the ARIN web site, however historical versions of what is arguably THE most important ARIN document of all, i.e. the RSA, do not appear to be available, either in the "vault" section of ARIN's web site, on in any other part of the ARIN web site. To add further insult to this injury, I asked an old friend to contact the ARIN billing department on my behalf to specifically and explicitly request copies of the old RSA versions. He did this, in the first instance, by phone, and he was instructed to send the request via email to the billing department, which he then did. More than 48 hours later, no response whatsoever has been received to this request, not even an acknowledgement of reciept. I can well understand why ARIN staff and management may wish to have the average Joe Schmo looking only at the most current version of the RSA, but deliberately making older versions of this key document unavalable, even to researchers, is unacceptable and should be rectified forthwith. Regards, rfg
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