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

[David Gillett <gillettdavid () FHDA EDU>]

  My guess would be that they're laying groundwork for moves to
reclaim some space that was allocated by IANA to organizations
that no longer require it.  This sounds like our opportunity to
protect our allocations from disruption by such a move....

David Gillett


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of David Lundy
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:41 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] E-mail from ARIN ref. Legacy
> Registration Services
>
> 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
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> -----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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