<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Sep 16, 2022, at 08:53 , John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="">It’s an artifact of our formation that we are presently providing services to any customers absent any agreement </div>
<div class="">and while ARIN continues to do so (by providing basic services to legacy customers), the long-term direction is </div>
<div class="">to provide the same services to all customers under the same agreement and fees – anything else wouldn’t be </div>
<div class="">equitable. </div>
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<div class="">(This is the direction that the ARIN Board of Trustees has set based on community input; I will note that </div>
<div class="">the ARIN Board is itself elected by the community and that we have our annual election upcoming – </div>
<div class=""><a href="https://www.arin.net/announcements/20220906-arinslate/" class="">https://www.arin.net/announcements/20220906-arinslate/</a> ) </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>You keep saying this, but it is still false.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The community includes legacy holders that don’t have contracts. It also includes end users that don’t have voting</div><div>rights (until their next renewal and demand of those voting rights by said end users).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The ARIN board is elected by the members… In other words, you have specifically excluded anyone with an interest</div><div>contrary to the stated position from electing the board, so of course the board is rather lopsided on this issue. Whether</div><div>that is by design or simply by nature is left as an exercise for the reader.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div><br class=""></body></html>