On 15 Sep 2022, at 4:45 PM, Gary E. Miller <gem@rellim.com> wrote:

On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 20:34:43 +0000
John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:

In any case, legacy resource holders who don’t care for these
advanced services (whose development and maintenance is paid for by
the ARIN community) can simply continue to maintain their legacy
resources in the ARIN registry.  They do not have to do anything, as
ARIN is continuing to provide basic registration services to the
thousands of non-contracted legacy resource holders (including online
updates to your resources, reverse DNS services, etc.) without fee or
contract.

Not been my experience.

Gary - 

We do have some cases where folks have difficulty demonstrating that the resources were issued to 
them (and/or have disputes between parties over who is the actual rights holder), but otherwise you 
should be able to create an ARIN Online account and administer ARIN services for the address block 
without any agreement - see  https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/legacy/services/ for details.   The
intent is that legacy resource holders receive the same registry services (w/o fee or contract) as they 
did before ARIN’s inception. 

If you’ve got a situation where you believe that has not been the case, reach out to our Registration
Services Helpdesk <https://www.arin.net/resources/guide/helpdesk/>, and if that fails, reach out to
me and provide a reference to the appropriate ARIN ticket(s) so that I can review. 

Thanks!
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
American Registry for Internet Numbers