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Sun Jul 21 18:39:33 UTC 2019

On 7/21/19 7:32 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> Yeah... It just seems like holding an asset in trust for a population and
> selling that asset without consulting that population (or at least
> consulting the organizations the population commonly understands to
> represent them) is very fishy business.

This is the major problem, lack of community involvement.  It's a world wide
resource, but it's use has been hamstrung by the people in charge for years.

> 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. The "appearance of
> impropriety" is then magnified by ARIN deeming the matter a private
> transaction between it and the alleged registrants to which the pubic is
> not entitled to a detailed accounting.

You know what they say about good intentions.

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