Good deal. Thanks John, have a great weekend! On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 11:52 AM John Curran <jcur...@arin.net> wrote:
> On 19 Jul 2019, at 11:46 AM, Tom Beecher <beec...@beecher.cc> wrote: > > > Understood on specifics. But can you comment on the general ARIN policy on > the topic? My understanding was that once a legacy resource was transferred > , it was permanently removed as a legacy resource. > > > As noted earlier, general ARIN policy is as follows - > > *Those who received IPv4 address blocks by InterNIC (or its predecessors) > prior to the inception of ARIN on 22 December 1997 are legacy resource > holders, and continue to receive those same registry services for those > blocks (Whois, reverse DNS, ability to update) without any need for an > agreement with ARIN. This has been provided without any fee to the > original registrants (or their legal successors) as recognition of their > contributions to the early Internet.* > > *Some legacy resource holders opt to sign a “legacy registration services > agreement” by which ARIN provides specific and well-defined legal rights to > the registrant – this is the same RSA as other ARIN customers, but ARIN > caps the total annual maintenance fees that are incurred by legacy resource > holders. An RSA is also required to receive services that the community > has funded the developed since ARIN’s inception, such as resource > certification services. * > > > > Thanks! > /John > > John Curran > President and CEO > American Registry for Internet Numbers > >