[125134] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Behold - the Address-Yenta!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Apr 9 07:43:52 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 07:43:23 -0400
In-Reply-To: <m2y6gx82g4.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:17 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
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> john, addresses are assets. ...
Randy - You may believe that IP addresses are assets; feel free to do so.
ARIN's position follows RFC 2008 and RFC 2050 and will continue to do so
until the community directs otherwise. For the legal discussion, see:
<http://www.chtlj.org/sites/default/files/media/articles/v024/v024.i2.Ryan.=
pdf>
> people will transfer assets. get over it.
ARIN recognizes transfers of IP address blocks to designated recipients und=
er=20
the transfer policy which was extensively discussed by this community and=20
adopted in June of last year: <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#eight3=
>
Other regional registries have also adopted transfer policies. That is not
the question.
The question discussed is the practice of performing resource review as a=20
result of fraudulent applications. This is clearly intended by the communi=
ty=20
in NRPM section 12 <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#twelve> so ARIN
will do its best to enforce the policy as adopted.=20
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN