On 4/9/10 5:27 AM, Joe Greco wrote: > > ARIN might not have a contract with us, or with other legacy holders. > It wasn't our choice for ARIN to be tasked with holding up InterNIC's > end of things. However, it's likely that they've concluded that they > better do so, because if they don't, it'll probably turn into a costly > legal battle on many fronts, and I doubt ARIN has the budget for that. > > As a legacy holder, we don't really care who is currently "responsible" > for legacy maintenance/etc. However, whoever it is, if they're not > going to take on those responsibilities, that's a problem. > > The previous poster asked, "If you don't have a contract with ARIN, > why should ARIN provide you with anything?" > > Well, the flip side to that is, "ARIN doesn't have a contract with us, > but we still have copies of the InterNIC policies under which we were > assigned space, and ARIN undertook those duties, so ARIN is actually > the one with significant worries if they were to try to pull anything, > otherwise, we don't really care." >
What do those InterNIC policies say about getting IPv6 space? If nothing, expect nothing. If something, hold them to it. ~Seth