On Tue, Jul 26, 2022 at 2:23 PM Ronald F. Guilmette <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
> > To put it another way, if a former and now-defunct ARIN member falls in > the forrest, > and if there is no requirement to make any changes in the associated > public-facing > WHOIS record(s) after the dead company's membership and resources are > reassigned to > some successor entity, then how would anyone outside of ARIN even know > that any actual > reassignment had taken place? > Ron, Why would ARIN be the place to track changes of ownership of corporate entities? If Elon Musk, for example, were to buy Twitter for $44B, would anyone at all expect ARIN records to reflect the change in ownership? Sure, you can look to SEC records to see the change in ownership; it's not a secret; but it's not something that's on ARIN's head to track. Similarly, when GlobalCrossing was bought by Level3, there was no sudden requirement that every record within ARIN that used to say "GlobalCrossing" now say "Level3" (I mean Qwest) (no wait, I mean CenturyLink) (shoot, no, now I mean Lumen). Nowhere does the NRPM say that ARINs records must change when the name or owner of a company changes. It does require that POCs be current and updated, and if the previous owner of an entity is no longer the right POC, I would expect to see an updated set of POCs for the entity after the change of ownership, but that would be the extent to which ARIN's publicly visible records would need to change. (You can verify this for yourself by searching through ARIN whois records for "global crossing", "Level 3", etc. to see that there has been no requirement that records be immediately updated to show that ownership and control has changed.) Matt
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