[136557] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Feb 3 14:18:36 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Ernie Rubi <ernesto@cs.fiu.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 19:16:36 +0000
In-Reply-To: <12F71EB1-E945-4189-BD5F-19715F7DE680@cs.fiu.edu>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Mr. Rubi -=20
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I'm sorry if my answer is not clear.=20
If your question was: "What is the source of ARIN's legal authority to m=
anage the ARIN WHOIS database?"
then answer is that the database is managed as part of ARIN's mission, p=
er policies established by the community.
If you're trying to ask a different question, I'm more than happy to ans=
wer, but I'd ask that you be more explicit.
Thank you,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
On Feb 3, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Ernie Rubi wrote:
> I think it's OK to say you cannot/would rather not answer the question, i=
nstead of giving a non-answer. I was trying to follow along with your 'the=
community acquiescence gives us the legal right to take back legacy IP add=
resses' argument.
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> Cheers,
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> Ernie
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> On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:58 PM, John Curran wrote:
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>> On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Ernie Rubi wrote:
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>>> OK so the argument is the 'community' is ARIN's source of legal authori=
ty or is it the corporate laws of the State of Virginia?
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>> Mr. Rubi -=20
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>> ARIN operates the ARIN WHOIS database as part of the mission of=20
>> organization in serving the community, and we're incorporated in=20
>> the State of Virginia as nonstock corporation pursuant to the=20
>> Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act. Our corporate documents are
>> available here:=20
>> <https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs.html>
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>> Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.
>> /John
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>> John Curran=20
>> President and CEO
>> ARIN
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