As stated before, ARIN did receive and process a request from the 44/8 registrant to transfer a portion of the block to another party.
For all transfer requests, we review and confirm:
- That the source of the transfer is the legal entity which holds the rights to the address block in the registry
- That the transfer is authorized by an registered officer of that legal entity
- That the recipient org has approval per policy to receive an address block of the appropriate size
You may have other questions that are better referred to the registrant (Amateur Radio Digital Communications); e.g. regarding why the request was made –
Hey John,
I think perhaps the relevant questions for ARIN here are:
1> How did the organization currently holding the rights to the 44/8 block come to hold those rights, and how did ARIN verify that it held those rights?
2> Did ARIN ensure that the establishment of an ARIN RSA for the 44/8 block did not violate any prior agreements related to the stewardship of the 44/8 block? If so, how was this done?
3> What were the terms under which the rights to the 44/8 block was held by said organization prior to the establishment of an ARIN RSA?
4> When was an ARIN RSA established which covered the 44/8 block?
The bigger question here is how we got to the point where an organization with virtually no transparency came to hold the legal rights to a community asset without any sort of oversight or contractual obligations with regard to management of said resource. Ultimately that means figuring out if the legacy agreements by which 44/8 was held by the organization did indeed include encumberences on the sale or transfer of the space (which would make sense, if I am giving stewardship of a large community asset to an organization, I'm going to include stipulations about what they can't do with it, and selling it to a for-profit entity for cash is going to be #1 on that list.)
Thanks,
Matt