[124226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN negotiation?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Fri Mar 26 17:57:46 2010
In-Reply-To: <D246ED7A3DD2FD45A2E5E1F3AAEAC2692FEE00C2B6@ESCC2.epicsys.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:56:36 -0400
To: Jeremy Charles <JCharles@epic.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jeremy Charles <JCharles@epic.com> wrote:
> Has anyone here had their legal department balk at the legal
> agreement that ARIN wants you to sign when you get things
> like an AS number or an IP block?
Yes.
> Any luck in negotiating with ARIN?
No.
> The agreement has language at the top saying that ARIN
> doesn't accept modifications, but our legal team is
> questioning whether that means it really is non-negotiable.
It does.
> They're not exactly fans of it as it is written.
> (I probably can't share what my legal counsel is
> saying to me about the agreement, but it's
> probably not relevant to the question anyway...)
I can't imagine why anyone would balk at a contract where the "seller"
more or less says, "You agree that all your base are belong to us."
Suck it up; for better or for worse, that's how the game is played.
The good news is that you can hop on ARIN PPML and have a respectably
strong say in what rules get written.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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