Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

Tue Apr 21 10:49:04 UTC 2009

There's a big difference between signing that the books are right (it
matters!) and filling out paperwork for ARIN.  The first is one of his
primary duties as an officer of the company, the second won't even make his
secretary's "to do" list.

It appears that ARIN wants to raise the IP addressing space issue to the CxO
level -- if it was interested in honesty, ARIN would have required a
notarized statement by the person submitting the request.  If ARIN really
wants to get the interest of CEOs, raise the price!

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Jo Rhett [mailto:jrhett at netconsonance.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:25 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
> So the "officer," most likely not being a technical person, is going  
> to
> contact ...  probably the same people who made the request, ask them  
> if
> they need the space.  Right?
>
> And why would the answer be any different, now?

This is exactly identical to having the CEO signed the quarterly  
statements.  You are saying this is Right.  The CEO couldn't do that  
accounting him/herself -- but they're going to ask more questions and  
be more cautious before putting their name on it.

I applaud this idea.  I wish we had done it 10 years ago, but it's not  
too late to start.  Before late than never.

-- 
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
and other randomness