On 19 Sep 2022, at 11:08 PM, John Curran <jcur...@arin.net<mailto:jcur...@arin.net>> wrote:
On 19 Sep 2022, at 10:48 PM, John Gilmore <g...@toad.com<mailto:g...@toad.com>> wrote: ... Is there a public archive of these court proceedings? Or even a list of which cases have involved ARIN (or another RIR)? John - Not to my knowledge for ARIN - we are routinely involved in various civil, criminal, bankruptcy and probate matters as necessary to protect the rights of the resource holders (in cases where they are being hijacked or otherwise converted by parties not affiliated with the registrant) and the rights of the ARIN community (in cases where parties attempt to dispose of number resources contrary to community-developed policy.) We do not publish an index of cases, but those cases that are public matters are available in appropriate court record searches. John - It occurred to me that there is a discussion of many of the legal aspects in the transfer of IP address blocks (from ARIN’s view) including references some of relevant cases that have been through the courts contained in the following 2013 ABA article written by Ben Edelman and ARIN’s General Counsel (at that time) Steve Ryan – https://www.americanbar.org/groups/business_law/publications/blt/2013/05/03_edelman/ While this doesn’t provide a list of the legal proceedings, it does provide reference to some of the more seminal ones as well as provide pointers to several examples of orders that have occur in bankruptcy events (the most common circumstances that ARIN ends up involved in) FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers
