Re: 44/8

[Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc>]

Good deal. Thanks John, have a great weekend!

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:52 AM John Curran <jcurran () arin net> wrote:

> On 19 Jul 2019, at 11:46 AM, Tom Beecher <beecher () beecher cc> wrote:
>
>
> Understood on specifics. But can you comment on the general ARIN policy on
> the topic? My understanding was that once a legacy resource was transferred
> , it was permanently removed as a legacy resource.
>
>
> As noted earlier, general ARIN policy is as follows -
>
> *Those who received IPv4 address blocks by InterNIC (or its predecessors)
> prior to the inception of ARIN on 22 December 1997 are legacy resource
> holders, and continue to receive those same registry services for those
> blocks (Whois, reverse DNS, ability to update) without any need for an
> agreement with ARIN.  This has been provided without any fee to the
> original registrants (or their legal successors) as recognition of their
> contributions to the early Internet.*
>
> *Some legacy resource holders opt to sign a “legacy registration services
> agreement” by which ARIN provides specific and well-defined legal rights to
> the registrant – this is the same RSA as other ARIN customers, but ARIN
> caps the total annual maintenance fees that are incurred by legacy resource
> holders.  An RSA is also required to receive services that the community
> has funded the developed since ARIN’s inception, such as resource
> certification services. *
>
>
>
> Thanks!
> /John
>
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers