[136518] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Feb 3 12:21:51 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 16:57:40 +0000
In-Reply-To: <0FDB411B-3687-40F0-B18C-4A2A28ACA51E@queuefull.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 3, 2011, at 11:51 AM, Benson Schliesser wrote:
>> Such transfers should be reported when noticed, so the resources can be =
reclaimed and reissued.
>=20
> Is any RIR authorized, in a legal sense, to "reclaim" legacy address bloc=
ks that RIR didn't "issue"? Without that legal authority, is any RIR prepa=
red to accommodate the legal damages stemming from "reclamation"? (Does the=
RIR membership support such action, in the first place?)
Resources are listed in the ARIN WHOIS database, which is administered per =
policies established by the community in this region.
Short answer: there's no shortage of authority updating that database as lo=
ng as the community wishes it so.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
