Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services

[David Lundy <dlundy () PACIFIC EDU>]

We received this as well and I know of another sent to another
university.

This involves legacy IP block allocations.  Our class B block was
allocated in 1990 I believe by IANA.  ARIN did not yet exist and
inherited these allocations.  This is a move to register these address
blocks under ARIN along with the blocks ARIN has itself allocated to
organizations.  They promise to protect the historical allocation, a pro
and charge $100 a year, a con with this registration.

I lack and would welcome a good analysis of ARIN's request as well.

Dave

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David Lundy
Assistant IT Security Officer
University of the Pacific
Stockton, CA 95211
Email: dlundy () pacific edu
Voice: 209-946-3951
Fax: 209-946-2898         

-----Original Message-----
From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
[mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Clyde Hoadley
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:22 AM
To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
Subject: [SECURITY] E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services

We received a rather odd e-mail from ARIN.NET this week (excerpt below).
It's not clear to me what this is about.  Did anyone else received one?
Should we send it on to our legal Council? Ignore it? Apply for it?
Does
it even apply to Colleges and Universities?

This is outside my domain of knowledge which, I admit, is growing
smaller by the hour (grin).

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Clyde Hoadley
Metropolitan State College of Denver

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [ARIN-20080324.9783] ARIN offers a Legacy Registration
Services Agreement
> Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 06:11:08 -0400
> From: arin-registration () arin net

...
> The American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN) now offers you
> a Legacy Registration Services Agreement(RSA). This agreement
> ensures your legacy resources the same services provided to
> thousands of other organizations who have received Internet
> number resources directly from ARIN since December 1997. The
> Legacy RSA contractually ensures that ARIN policies adopted
> after the contract is signed will not reduce or restrict the
> Legacy RSA address holder's contractual rights.
...

> http://www.arin.net/registration/legacy/

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