Re: Behold - the Address-Yenta!

[John Curran <jcurran () arin net>]

On Apr 9, 2010, at 12:20 PM, David Conrad wrote:
> > The question discussed is the practice of performing resource review as a 
> > result of fraudulent applications.  
>
> Actually, no.  The question was whether the practice of creating a company to hold IP addresses then selling that 
> company to another organization was considered by ARIN to be fraudulent.  In the particular (historical) cases I'm 
> aware of, the address space in question was legacy /24s and the transfers 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 addresses 
then selling that company to another organization" was considered fraudulent by ARIN.
I asked that you please report such cases, as depending on the specific circumstances 
they are  *potentially* fraudulent.

> Speaking personally (of course), I'll admit a certain lack of comfort with the idea of ARIN (or any RIR) acting as 
> lawmaker, police, judge, jury, and (assuming RPKI gets deployed) executioner.

As a member of the community, you are free to propose changes to or elimination 
of the policies in the NRPM which you are not comfortable with; I expect that you 
will find them in sections 8 and 12.  The policy development role is open to the 
community, but specifically not the ARIN Board and Staff, so there is perhaps a
little more separation present than your email suggests.

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN