On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 7:39 AM John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:?
On 16 Sep 2022, at 10:11 PM, John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com> wrote:
As a simple example, ARIN's contract need not require its customers to give up their resources when ceasing to pay ARIN for services. (There's
A wonderful assertion, but false.
Of course ARIN could adjust its contract that way. That ARIN -chooses- not to.does not make John Gilmore's claim false. Moreover, ARIN could choose to offer RPKI service under a contract which specifies only that the RPKI services are applicable only to IP addresses registered to the contractee at ARIN without saying anything about how they're registered. Such an approach would meet ARIN's self-imposed requirement to treat everybody the same without disturbing the status quo for legacy registrations. ARIN chooses not to SOLELY as a -forcing function- to get legacy registrants to sign an RSA declaring that they've no rights over the IP addresses. And ARIN does so to the detriment of the routing community which would benefit from those legacy registrants joining the RPKI system. And I'd be willing to bet that if you polled the ARIN members, the majority would rather have the legacy registrants participate in RPKI even if they didn't have to sign the RSA covering their IP addresses to do it. Regards, Bill Herrin -- For hire. https://bill.herrin.us/resume/