On 4 Apr 2022, at 9:52 PM, Jon Lewis <jle...@lewis.org> wrote: > ... > I guess this legacy IP space, which is probably visible in ARIN's whois DB, > but for which they provide no additional services unless you sign a LRSA and > are then on the hook for annual membership fees?
ARIN has provided decades of service to legacy resource holders without any fee or contract… when ARIN was formed in 1997, the ARIN Board made the decision to provide free registry services to those organizations already holding number resources and not require any contract or fee with the new ARIN organization. It was also decided to continue this benefit even if the organization was acquired or merged with another – their legal successor after merger/acquisition continues to receive those same registry services from ARIN for their legacy number resources without fee or contract. The basic registry services provided to legacy resource holders are similar to those in place at ARIN’s formation (i.e. at the time of the US government approved the transfer of the registry to ARIN - <https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102819), and include Whois publication (incl. now RDAP), reverse DNS service, record updates, etc. Legacy resource holders also get the benefit of online resource management via ARIN Online, use of the ARIN Registration Services Helpdesk, and other support services whose costs are recovered solely by the fees paid by the ARIN membership. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO American Registry for Internet Numbers
