On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 5:45 PM, Jeremy Charles <jchar...@epic.com> wrote: > Has anyone here had their legal department balk at the legal > agreement that ARIN wants you to sign when you get things > like an AS number or an IP block?
Yes. > Any luck in negotiating with ARIN? No. > The agreement has language at the top saying that ARIN > doesn't accept modifications, but our legal team is > questioning whether that means it really is non-negotiable. It does. > They're not exactly fans of it as it is written. > (I probably can't share what my legal counsel is > saying to me about the agreement, but it's > probably not relevant to the question anyway...) I can't imagine why anyone would balk at a contract where the "seller" more or less says, "You agree that all your base are belong to us." Suck it up; for better or for worse, that's how the game is played. The good news is that you can hop on ARIN PPML and have a respectably strong say in what rules get written. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ her...@dirtside.com b...@herrin.us 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
