On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 9:54 AM John Curran <jcur...@arin.net> wrote:
> > As stated before, ARIN did receive and process a request from the 44/8 > registrant to transfer a portion of the block to another party. > > For all transfer requests, we review and confirm: > > - That the source of the transfer is the legal entity which holds the > rights to the address block in the registry > - That the transfer is authorized by an registered officer of that legal > entity > - That the recipient org has approval per policy to receive an address > block of the appropriate size > > You may have other questions that are better referred to the registrant > (Amateur Radio Digital Communications); e.g. regarding why the request was > made – > I will note that the contact information for the block is current in the > Whois database, and available at < > https://search.arin.net/rdap/?query=44.0.0.0> > Hey John, I think perhaps the relevant questions for ARIN here are: 1> How did the organization currently holding the rights to the 44/8 block come to hold those rights, and how did ARIN verify that it held those rights? 2> Did ARIN ensure that the establishment of an ARIN RSA for the 44/8 block did not violate any prior agreements related to the stewardship of the 44/8 block? If so, how was this done? 3> What were the terms under which the rights to the 44/8 block was held by said organization prior to the establishment of an ARIN RSA? 4> When was an ARIN RSA established which covered the 44/8 block? The bigger question here is how we got to the point where an organization with virtually no transparency came to hold the legal rights to a community asset without any sort of oversight or contractual obligations with regard to management of said resource. Ultimately that means figuring out if the legacy agreements by which 44/8 was held by the organization did indeed include encumberences on the sale or transfer of the space (which would make sense, if I am giving stewardship of a large community asset to an organization, I'm going to include stipulations about what they can't do with it, and selling it to a for-profit entity for cash is going to be #1 on that list.) Thanks, Matt