[136572] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Feb 3 14:59:03 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:56:46 +0000
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Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>=20
> I strongly suspect that his question is actually "Does ARIN have any=20
> enforceable legal authority to compel an entity to cease using a
> specific block of address space, absent a contract?"
ARIN has the authority to manage its database, and does so according to=20
the community developed policies. This includes changing the entries
which designate the address holder, and specify that there is now a new
address holder. =20
None of this has to do with how entities configure their routers or=20
servers. =20
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
