Whatever happened to the entire class E block? I know it's reserved for future
use, but sounds like that future is now given that we've exhausted all existing
allocations.Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: William Herrin <[email protected]> Date:
7/22/19 12:16 PM (GMT-06:00) To: John Curran <[email protected]> Cc: North
American Network Operators' Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: 44/8 On Mon,
Jul 22, 2019 at 6:02 AM John Curran <[email protected]> wrote:> On 21 Jul 2019,
at 7:32 AM, William Herrin <[email protected]> wrote:> > Having read their
explanation, I think the folks involved had good > > reasons and the best
intentions but this stinks like fraud to me. Worse,> > it looks like ARIN was
complicit in the fraud -- encouraging and then > > supporting the folks
involved as they established a fiefdom of their own> >rather than integrating
with the organizations that existed.>> As you are aware, there are individuals
and businesses who operate as>a “Doing Business As/DBA" or on behalf on an
unincorporated organization>at the time of issuance; it is a more common
occurrence than one might imagine,>and we have to deal with the early
registrations appropriately based on the>particular circumstance. ARIN
promptly put processes in place so that such>registrations, having been made on
behalf of a particular purpose or organization,>do not get misappropriated to
become rights solely of the point of contact held for>personal gain – indeed,
there are cases where organizations are created with>similar names for the
purposes of hijacking number resources, but such cases>don’t generally involve
principles who were involved in the administration of the>resources since
issuance nor do they involve formalization of the registrant into>a public
benefit not-for-profit organization.Respectfully John, this wasn't a DBA or an
individual figuring the org name field on the old email template couldn't be
blank. A class-A was allocated to a _purpose_. You've not only allowed but
encouraged that valuable resource to be reassigned to an organization, this
ARDC, and then treated the organization as a proxy for the purpose. No one
asked you to do that. Nothing in the publicly vetted policies demanded that you
attach organizations to the purpose-based allocations and certainly nothing
demanded that you grant such organizations identical control over the resources
as the control possessed by folks who were the intended direct recipients of
assignments.I guess you thought that would avoid having ARIN make judgement
calls each time about whether the registrant for a purpose-based allocation was
acting in the best interest of the purpose? It doesn't. It just makes ARIN look
like a party to fraud.Regards,Bill Herrin-- William
[email protected]https://bill.herrin.us/
