[125281] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sun Apr 11 20:16:12 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <642E8F43-C0BA-4604-B50A-2F79E4A8B55D@arin.net>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:15:54 -1000
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
John,
On Apr 11, 2010, at 1:08 PM, John Curran wrote:
>> When most of the legacy space was handed out, there were no =
restrictions on what you could do/not do with address space simply =
because no one considered it necessary.=20
> I don't think I can agree with that statement,
Not surprising.
> but for sake of clarity -=20
> when do you think this "no restriction" period actually occurred?
Hard for me to tell, since my interaction with Jon in terms of obtaining =
IP addresses was limited to getting 202/7 back in '93 or so. If I =
remember correctly, Jon simply said addresses from that block should be =
used for assignments in the AP region in keeping with RFC 1466. He did =
not impose any sort of restrictions on "transfers" (why bother since all =
you needed to do was ask for addresses) nor were there any formal =
agreements. I suppose the limitation of allocation to the AP region =
could be considered a restriction, but that's probably a bit pedantic.
However, pragmatically speaking, both of our views are irrelevant. My =
impression is that folks who have legacy space believe that it is their =
asset. As I said in response to Owen, I suspect a legal decision will =
be needed to definitively resolve this question.
Regards,
-drc
