On 4/9/10 5:27 AM, Joe Greco wrote:
ARIN might not have a contract with us, or with other legacy holders. It wasn't our choice for ARIN to be tasked with holding up InterNIC's end of things. However, it's likely that they've concluded that they better do so, because if they don't, it'll probably turn into a costly legal battle on many fronts, and I doubt ARIN has the budget for that.
As a legacy holder, we don't really care who is currently "responsible" for legacy maintenance/etc. However, whoever it is, if they're not going to take on those responsibilities, that's a problem.
The previous poster asked, "If you don't have a contract with ARIN, why should ARIN provide you with anything?"
Well, the flip side to that is, "ARIN doesn't have a contract with us, but we still have copies of the InterNIC policies under which we were assigned space, and ARIN undertook those duties, so ARIN is actually the one with significant worries if they were to try to pull anything, otherwise, we don't really care."
What do those InterNIC policies say about getting IPv6 space? If nothing, expect nothing. If something, hold them to it. ~Seth