Owen - 

It’s certainly worth looking into…  Might you submit that idea into the ARIN suggestion process so it may
be formally considered?   (ARIN ACSP <https://www.arin.net/participate/community/acsp/process/)

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers

On 19 Sep 2022, at 11:58 PM, Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

Why not publish such a table?

It shouldn’t be a particularly difficult task and could prove rather enlightening.

Owen

On Sep 19, 2022, at 20:09, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:


On 19 Sep 2022, at 10:48 PM, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:

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)?

John -

Not to my knowledge for ARIN - we are routinely involved in various civil, criminal, bankruptcy and
probate matters as necessary to protect the rights of the resource holders (in cases where they are
being hijacked or otherwise converted by parties not affiliated with the registrant) and the rights of
the ARIN community (in cases where parties attempt to dispose of number resources contrary to
community-developed policy.)   We do not publish an index of cases, but those cases that are
public matters are available in appropriate court record searches.

Thanks,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers