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Clarification: ARIN plays, at most, an advisory role during appropriate assignment *disputes*. That last word is very important :> > > DS writes: > > Nonetheless, ARIN is in the business of requiring compliance with its > > policies as a condition of IP address allocations. > > In the real world ARIN only looks at existing assignments to judge the > worthiness of an additional address space request. It doesn't look at nor > care about non-existent assignments. > > DS writes: > > > Third parties can make reasonable arguments that they have standing to > > litigate these requirements on the grounds that the requirements were > > intended to benefit the public in general and hence they are intended > > beneficiaries. > > ARIN plays, at most, an advisory role to upstream/downstreams vis-a-vis > appropriate assignments. It does not get involved with legal disputes nor > does it ever directly instruct businesses how to conduct their affairs > > Sure: organizations have successfully gotten more appropriate assignments > from upstreams by thrusting ARIN policies in front of an obstinate > upstream's face. Good. > > But those policies in no way preclude an upstream from taking away > downstream assignments - especially in the case of this thread, where the > customer/upstream relationship was terminated. > > Can we please stop this non-argument now? I agree with what you've said: > ARIN policies are good for those trying to obtain appropriate assignments. > But the more basic argument of "will I make an assignment to my > downstream" or "will I allow this assignment to remain in effect" has > nothing to do with what you're talking about. > > ************************** David R Huberman 42737 Center Street South Riding VA 20152 Home: 703 327 1258 Mobile: 703 627 5800
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