On Mar 26, 2013, at 11:19 AM, Nick Hilliard <nick@inex.ie> wrote:
...but none of these courts have actually ruled in favour of your position, correct?
Actually, that is incorrect. We have had a ruling from federal district court and it upheld our position in being able to manage number resources in accordance with the policy in the region. I would not call 100% definitive ruling because it was not based on hearing of the potential fullness of the topic but instead limited by the specific legal circumstances. We've also been heavily involved in bankruptcy courts with respect to number resource transfers, and all of these have been resolved in compliance with the number resource policy developed by the community in the ARIN region. You may find references to these cases in the following article: <https://www.arin.net/resources/transfers/mwe_internet_article010512.pdf> I will reiterate for avoidance of any doubt and to bring this back to the topic at hand: the RIPE community should feel free set any transfer policy that applies to resources in its region, but I'd recommend against developing policy based on a belief that ARIN policies don't apply to all resources in the ARIN region, as the outcome will not match expectations. FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN p.s. I expect some of the RIPE folks have now had more than their dose of legal fun for the day and would suggest followups to ARIN ppml or ARIN discuss (but obviously will remain available as a resource if folks really want to continue the discussion on the RIPE address-policy-wg list...)