John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:
[challenges by legacy registrants] has been before judges and resolved numerous times.
We’ve actually had the matter before many judges, and have never been ordered to do anything other than operate the registry per the number resource policy as developed by this community – this has been the consistent outcome throughout both civil and bankruptcy proceedings.
Is there a public archive of these court proceedings? Or even a list of which cases have involved ARIN (or another RIR)? What can the community learn from what help resource holders have asked courts for, and what help they eventually got? John PS: Re another RIR: There's a short list of some of the ~50 lawsuits against AFRINIC in its Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFRINIC#Controversies_&_Scandals These are mostly to do with corruption, theft, and harassment. But an important subtheme includes what power AFRINIC has to seize IP addresses that were legitimately allocated to recipients. In the "Cloud Innovation" case, CI got addresses under standard policy, but years later, as I recall, AFRINIC tried to retroactively impose a new "no renting vm's" policy and a new requirement that all the addresses be hosted in Africa, even by global customers. After AFRINIC threatened to immediately revoke CI's membership and take back the addresses over this, CI sued AFRINIC to keep the status quo, keeping their business alive, while the courts sort out whether AFRINIC has the power to do so. Since then, it's mostly been procedural scuffling and some bad faith negotiations. If neither party goes bankrupt nor settles, it's possible that the courts of Mauritius will answer the question about whether their RIR has the power to impose new policies and then reclaim allocated addresses for violating them.