[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Policy Proposal (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Cleanup)

On Mar 26, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Milton L Mueller <mueller at syr.edu> wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> NSF was the USF agency which issued and provided oversight to the InterNIC
>> award performing these exact same functions (and additional ones related to
>> DNS) in the Internet's early years.
> 
> And here is what the General Counsel of the NSF said about this:
> http://www.internetgovernance.org/2012/09/22/its-official-legacy-ipv4-address-block-holders-own-their-number-blocks/ 

Apologies to the RIPE community.  Milton is referencing a letter which was
followed up by the same person noting that it just his observations and 
not the US government position as NTIA is authoritative in these matters - 

 <https://www.arin.net/resources/legacy/NSF-Rudolph-ARIN-7NOV2012.pdf>

NTIA subsequently issued the USG's Internet Protocol numbering principles, 
as I noted earlier, including that it recognizes ARIN as the RIR for its
region and is supportive of ARIN's policies.  Milton hasn't apparently 
updated his blog based on this withdrawal.

The full set of letters involved (with references) may by found at the 
bottom of this page: <https://www.arin.net/resources/legacy/index.html>

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN