On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jeremy Charles <JCharles@epic.com> wrote:
Has anyone here had their legal department balk at the legal agreement that ARIN wants you to sign when you get things like an AS number or an IP block?
Yes.
Any luck in negotiating with ARIN?
No.
The agreement has language at the top saying that ARIN doesn't accept modifications, but our legal team is questioning whether that means it really is non-negotiable.
It does.
They're not exactly fans of it as it is written. (I probably can't share what my legal counsel is saying to me about the agreement, but it's probably not relevant to the question anyway...)
I can't imagine why anyone would balk at a contract where the "seller" more or less says, "You agree that all your base are belong to us." Suck it up; for better or for worse, that's how the game is played. The good news is that you can hop on ARIN PPML and have a respectably strong say in what rules get written. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004