[139737] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Apr 18 19:33:26 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <4D7BBC15-2C19-4D63-ABAB-F85410363B6F@delong.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:33:11 -0700
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 18, 2011, at 4:10 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Yes... See ARIN NRPM 8.3 and Simplified Transfer Listing Service =
(STLS).
ARIN allows the listing of non-ARIN blocks on their listing service?
Also, doesn't the Microsoft-Nortel transaction violate NPRM 8.3 in that =
according to the court documents I've seen, Microsoft appears to have =
signed an LRSA (not an RSA as would seem to be required by the NPRM and =
as mentioned on ARIN's press release) and there doesn't appear to be =
anything suggesting Nortel entered into any agreement with ARIN (RSA or =
LRSA, however I will admit I haven't looked too closely)?
> If you want to see changes to these, suggest submitting policy via =
ARIN PPML
> or suggestions via the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion Process =
(ACSP).
As far as I can tell, the participants in ARIN's processes are more =
interested in trying to be a regulator than in being a registry. Given =
ARIN is not a government body and it does not have full buy-in from =
those who they would try to regulate, I suspect this will directly =
result in a proliferation of folks like tradeipv4.com, depository.net, =
etc. Unfortunately, I figure this will have negative repercussions for =
network operations (unless someone steps in and provides a definitive =
"address titles registry").
Regards,
-drc
