[125176] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Behold - the Address-Yenta!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Apr 9 14:11:43 2010
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 14:09:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <EC742BF8-1445-40F6-8D81-8684E1F3A7B5@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 9, 2010, at 12:20 PM, David Conrad wrote:
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>> The question discussed is the practice of performing resource review as =
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>> result of fraudulent applications. =20
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> Actually, no. The question was whether the practice of creating a compan=
y to hold IP addresses then selling that company to another organization wa=
s considered by ARIN to be fraudulent. In the particular (historical) case=
s I'm aware of, the address space in question was legacy /24s and the trans=
fers were done (as I understand it) according to ARIN policies of the time.
David - I didn't say that "the practice of creating a company to hold IP ad=
dresses=20
then selling that company to another organization" was considered fraudulen=
t by ARIN.
I asked that you please report such cases, as depending on the specific cir=
cumstances=20
they are *potentially* fraudulent.
> Speaking personally (of course), I'll admit a certain lack of comfort wit=
h the idea of ARIN (or any RIR) acting as lawmaker, police, judge, jury, an=
d (assuming RPKI gets deployed) executioner.
As a member of the community, you are free to propose changes to or elimina=
tion=20
of the policies in the NRPM which you are not comfortable with; I expect th=
at you=20
will find them in sections 8 and 12. The policy development role is open t=
o the=20
community, but specifically not the ARIN Board and Staff, so there is perha=
ps a
little more separation present than your email suggests.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
