On 4/17/14, 5:20 PM, Neil Johnson wrote:
As for not being official "Legacy" address space, signing an LRSA with ARIN is problematic for many legacy address holders because it is not clear wether the rights one gets and gives up is worth it. Plus it can incur paying enormous annual fees (in the tens of thousands of dollars range) to ARIN.
Actually, ARIN has no jurisdiction over the legacy space. The NSF has ruled that this (Postel) space is property of the legacy holders.
*ARDC owns 44/8. *
ARIN is required to manage the minimum of the database entries needed to make this space work at no cost to.
Signing a legacy RSA would be a bad idea as ARDC would give up ownership of 44/8 which is worth in excess of $100M USD!
We need to stay away from ARIN as much as we can, ie do everything via rwhois and DNS via AMPRnet servers, not ARIN. I'd even go so far to say that ARDC is basically it's own RIR not bound by *ANY *ARIN policy.