Fully agreed. This is seemingly running out of control. To be clear, I fully support LEA intent. I suspect they are getting bad advice on policy creation. Let's start over and help.
Best, -M< On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, William Herrin wrote: > On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:59 AM, ARIN <[email protected] <javascript:;>> > wrote: > > must > > provide proof that they (1) are an active business entity legally > > operating within the ARIN service region > > Howdy, > > Speaking for myself, this is unacceptable. I am adamantly, totally, > 100% against this, in concept and execution. > > This kind of restriction on international commerce is usually reserved > for national security issues. Foreign interests own ARIN region > infrastructure and do business with ARIN region customers all the > time, without registering themselves with the government. Just as > ARIN-region businesses do in Europe, Asia and elsewhere. Until there's > a need for employees in a country, it's not generally necessary and > often inappropriate to incorporate there. > > I think ARIN should continue to follow the same ordinary business > practice everyone else does when it comes to the legal status of its > registrants: as long as there's a contactable legal existence > somewhere (and it's incumbent on the registrant to prove it) they > should pass muster as an organization capable of requesting resources. > > > >, and (2) are operating a > > network located within the ARIN service region. In addition to meeting > > all other applicable policy requirements, a plurality of new resources > > "Plurality" is a non-starter for me. You really want to do this, pick a > percent. > > The reasons have all been stated before, both in the previous > discussion, the staff comments and the legal assessment. In context, > plurality is a sloppy, hard to pin down concept that makes management > and analysis needlessly hard. > > > > As reported at the last meeting in Barbados, ARIN staff is having > > difficulty verifying organizations out-of-region. In many of the cases, > > particularly in VPS (Virtual Private Service), the only information > > received on these organizations by ARIN is a customer name and IP > > address. This information cannot be properly verified by ARIN. Accuracy > > of registration data is critical to not only law enforcement, but the > > greater ARIN community as it relates to abuse contact and complaints. In > > fact, most issues facing law enforcement are also shared by legitimate > > companies attempting, for instance, to identify an organization that has > > hijacked their IP address space. > > Do I correctly read the expectation that the verification process ARIN > would apply to its direct registrants is expected to be adopted down > stream by service providers as they assign addresses to their > customers? What a godawful mess that would make! > > If not, then how exactly does the draft policy address the problem noted > above? > > > > I don't say this often, but for all of the reasons above I > respectfully encourage the AC to abandon this proposal. The issues > raised by our law enforcement colleagues are legitimate, but this > approach to solving them is not credible. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] <javascript:;> > [email protected] <javascript:;> > 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> > Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 > _______________________________________________ > PPML > You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to > the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected] <javascript:;>). > Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: > http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml > Please contact [email protected] <javascript:;> if you experience any issues. >
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