I have what I think is a rather simple question. Not a policy proposal. Just a simple question for now, but I suspect that most or all of you will be easily able to infer where I am going with this.
I watched a really rather interesting YouTube video recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zelMqK52NRE If you've ever taken any interest in the Panama Papers I, The Paradise Papers, The Panama Papers II, or if you've even ever been concerned about the activities of, say, the likes of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Vladimir Putin, then I do recommend that you watch the video, which is rather eye opening. The video, and another small piece of information that came to me recently, have together made me deeply curious to know whether or not ARIN, as part of its day-to-day normal operations, requires the production of any specific documentation of, or information about the beneficial owners of corporate/LLC legal entities to which it assigns number resources. Does it? And if so, how may these records be accessed? Certainly I've never seen any such information within any WHOIS record. All I see there is corporate names, nominal snail-mailing addresses, and nominal phone numbers. I know from experience that the addresses and phone numbers present in ARIN WHOIS records are, on many occasions, connected only to lawyers, incorporation agents, or opaque UPS mailboxes, and obviously this isn't the kind of information that interests me. If ARIN routinely collects documentation of the beneficial owners of the entities to which it assigns number resources, then I, for one, sure would like to know how to access that. On the other hand, if it doesn't... Well, we'll set that aside for the moment, and I'll just wait and hope for an answer to my basic question. I guess that another way of stating the question is: Is it trivially possible for persons or entities within, say, Russia, China, Iran, or North Korea to obtain a U.S. shell company and then proceed to leverage that in order to obtain number resources from ARIN? Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (ARIN-PPML@arin.net). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact i...@arin.net if you experience any issues.