ARIN Fraud Reporting Form ... Don't waste your time
John Curran
jcurran at arin.net
Fri Oct 1 21:43:47 UTC 2010
On Oct 1, 2010, at 5:27 PM, George Bonser <gbonser at seven.com> wrote:
>
> The problem as I see it is that ARIN is responsible for issuing number
> resources but is not responsible for any maintenance of the number
> space. It seems they have no requirement/method/need to revoke
> assignments once the assigned entity no longer exists. I am not looking
> for perfection but there should be some sort of diligence requirement
> that the most obvious of the low hanging fruit (or fruit that falls
> right off the tree into their lap) be dealt with in some way. If an
> entity liquidates, then their resources should be reclaimed.
Resources being used by actual defunct organizations we will reclaim if reported.
> How many entities does ARIN have who have not made a payment for 2 or
> more consecutive years but still have resources assigned? It is my
> personal opinion that ARIN (and the other registrars) must have the
> authority and the mechanism to reclaim community resources when the
> entity they were issued to disappears.
We already do this type of reclamation.
> That seems like a fairly easy
> concept. Note I am not talking about misuse here, just the fact that if
> a community resource is issued to an entity and that entity no longer
> exists, those resources should be reclaimed by the community within some
> reasonable amount of time
Agreed,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
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