[attribution removed, as I lost track of who said what] > > Do you now. Unfortunately, the plain language of the LRSA does not > > respect your belief. > > > > ARIN makes only two promises about the application of existing and new > > ARIN policies to LRSA signatories: "ARIN will take no action to reduce > > the services provided for Included Number Resources _that are not > > currently being utilized_ by the Legacy Applicant." (10.b) and "fee > > shall be $100 per year until the year 2013; no increase per year > > greater than $25." (6.b) > > > > Except for those exclusions, the LRSA includes "the Policies which are > > hereby incorporated by reference" (15.d). Those policies are "binding > > upon Legacy Applicant immediately after they are posted on the > > Website" (7). > > > > In other words, if the ARIN board adopts a policy that legacy > > registrants must install some of their addresses on a router on the > > moon (or perhaps some requirement that's a little less extreme) then > > failing to is cause for terminating the contract (14.b). Which revokes > > the IP addresses (14.e.i). > > > I think that is a rather bizarre and extreme construction of excerpts of the > contract language. More rational construction would lead one to believe > that the stated intent is to limit ARIN's ability to raise fees and prevent > the revocation of legacy addresses absent a failure to pay fees.
You could think this 'bizarre', and you might be right. I read it, however, and was convinced - at least to the point where I would advise a client not to sign such an agreement without additional research. Ritual disclaimer - IAAL, but not a very good one, and this isn't legal advice, and, if you take legal advice from a stranger's internet postings, you have bigger problems than ARIN can throw at you. :-) -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, FSPA, LLM aw...@ziskind.us Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://ziskind.us Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants