Re: IP renumbering timeframe

[David Schwartz <davids () webmaster com>]

On Thu, 9 May 2002 18:16:52 -0400 (EDT), David R Huberman wrote:

> Just because policies are in place that suggest an assignment may or may
> not be justified is wholly irrelevant to whether or not that assignment
> takes place (or in the case of the original thread, stays in place). ARIN
> is not in the business of saying "do" or "do not".

        Nonetheless, ARIN is in the business of requiring compliance with its
policies as a condition of IP address allocations. Third parties can make
reasonable arguments that they have standing to litigate these requirements
on the grounds that the requirements were intended to benefit the public in
general and hence they are intended beneficiaries.

        IANAL, but this argument was created by lawyers and has impressed lawyers.
As I said though, I know of no case where it was actually litigated. The
threat has always been enough to obtain more reasonable reassignment
policies.

        DS