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Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services
From: Michael Sinatra <michael () RANCID BERKELEY EDU>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 10:50:54 -0700
This is known as the "Legacy RSA" and it is legit. The American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN) is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for the non-Spanish-speaking portions of North America, and it is one of five RIRs. ARIN was created in December 1997 (as the email below explains) and is now in charge of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the ARIN region (again, the non-Spanish-speaking portions of North America). Prior to December 1997, IPv4 addresses were distributed through IANA in a much less formal process. Although there is no formal agreement to do so, ARIN provides services for these address blocks (called "legacy blocks"). These services include maintenance of a whois service, and the maintenance of in-addr.arpa delegations for reverse DNS. So, even if you know nothing about ARIN, chances are they're providing services for you--for free. Because many colleges and universities were on the net before the end of 1997, they therefore likely received IP address assignments prior to the inception of ARIN and are hence legacy holders. You are most likely receiving the email below because ARIN believes you hold legacy IP address space. It is therefore very relevant to many colleges and universities. There are movements in the ARIN policy community to further regulate legacy holders. The legacy agreement helps protect against this further regulation and possible encroachment on the address space you currently use. However, my understanding is that it also contains a termination clause for ARIN, but not for the other party. It requires you to pay $100 per year for all of your IP address resources (which helps to pay for the services you receive from ARIN), but if you stop paying, ARIN gets to take your resources away. Basically, you SHOULD have your legal counsel look at it. You should also discuss it with your CIO and the senior network engineer(s) in your organization. You should browse the archives of the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (PPML)--and note that anyone can join the PPML and participate in ARIN's policy discussions, regardless of your current status with ARIN. This is the organization that controls YOUR IP address space, so it's important to know what it's up to. Finally, here's a link to a useful presentation by Richard Jimmerson of ARIN regarding IPv4 and IPv6 address space status, given at the recent Internet2/ESCC Joint Techs meeting: http://winmedia.internet2.edu/jointtechs-w08/jtw08-15.wmv Hope this helps. michael Clyde Hoadley wrote:
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). --- 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/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Current thread:
- E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services Clyde Hoadley (Mar 27)
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- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services David Lundy (Mar 27)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services Teresa Beamer (Mar 27)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services Michael Sinatra (Mar 27)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services John (Mar 27)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services David Gillett (Mar 27)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services Brent Sweeny (Mar 27)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services George Russ (Mar 28)
- Re: E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy Registration Services David Lundy (Mar 28)