[125337] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Apr 12 14:37:06 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4C3EFA25-69C2-47B9-8976-8AD329BE7C2D@arin.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 08:36:45 -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 12, 2010, at 5:23 AM, John Curran wrote:
> On this matter we do agree, since allocations prior to ARIN's =
formation were=20
> generally made pursuant to a US Government contract or cooperative =
agreement. =20
As we're both aware, Jon was funded in part via the ISI Teranode Network =
Technologies project. Folks who were directly involved have told me that =
IANA-related activities weren't even identified in the original =
contracts until the mid- to late-90s (around the time when lawsuits were =
being thrown at Jon because of the domain name wars -- odd coincidence, =
that) when the IANA activities were codified as "Task 4". IANAL, but it =
seems a bit of a stretch to me for ARIN to assert policy control over =
resources allocated prior to ARIN's existence without any sort of =
documentation that explicitly lists that policy control in ARIN's =
predecessor (ever). Like I said, it'll be an interesting court case.
Regards,
-drc
