In message <[email protected]>, "Roberts, Orin" <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am assuming Ronald is aware of this. Yes, I am aware of the extent of the ARIN region and the list of coutries it includes is quite easy to find. But thank you. Anyway, while we are on the subject, let me just say that it is in fact this "regionality" issue that was uppermost in my mind when I started this thread. There are, in my opinion, plenty of good reasons that ARIN should be collecting and saving information on beneficial owners, not the least of which is to assist law enforcement when and if that need should arise, as well as insuring conformance to various international sanction regimes. But for me at least, at this moment, these things represent secondary benefits and secondary considerations. The primary thing that caused me to initiate this thread was the realization, based on some recent research, that certain out-of- region individuals, hiding behind both in-region and out-out-region shell companies, had somehow managed to obtain ARIN-issued IPv4 address blocks, and were doing things with those blocks that I personally consider rather entirely untowards, perhaps illegal, and maybe even in violation of ARIN usage policies and/or contractual commitments. To be slightly more specific, I found that a Delaware LLC which has ben issued an entire /19 by ARIN (in 2014) is in fact owned and controled by a gentleman in Iran. In addition to wondering why ARIN is handing out "scarce" limited resources to clearly out-of-region Iranians, I did and do wonder if this issuance was entirely consistant with the U.S./Iran sanctions that were in place at the time. More recently, anmd within the past 24 hours, I came upon what may arguably be an even more curious case, this being the case of a gentleman whose own Facebook page indicates that he is, at present, a resident of Karachi, Pakistan. This gentleman apparently owns and runs a non-shell company, i.e. one that is actually being used to conduct real business, but that company is incorporated in the opaque jurisdiction of U.A.E., well known for its distinctive corporate secrecy laws. (Neither U.A.E. nor Pakistan atre in the ARIN region, last time I checked.) Every attwempt I have made so far indicates that this gentleman has never incorporated any of his relevant business entities anywhere in the Americas. He does apparently make use of a P.O. drop box in the State of Texas, but his company is not registered in that state, nor in any other U.S. state, as far as I have been able to determine. Despite all this, ARIN saw fit to grant him an entire /17. As I've said, in both of these cases, the IP space that ARIN has granted to the companies of these two out-of-region gentlemen have been used and/or are being used for purposes that are, in my opinion, at best questionable. I am, as many, most, or all of you already know, opposed to quite a lot of different types of hanky panky on the Internet, especially in cases where it significantly and negatively affects the use and enjoyment of the Internet by others. I actively oppose bad behavior on the Internet without regard to which region or regions it arises from, and it angers me whenever and whereever I see it. But it seems to me that it is adding insult to injury when out-of-region bad actors somehow manage to finnagle their way into obtaining sizable swaths of in-region resources, and then proceed to use those for less than honorable purposes. So, you know, if you want to boil it all down, I am frankly more than a little miffed to see ARIN giving out "scarce" number resources to out-of-region beneficial owners who are merely hiding behind shell companies, but particularly when those out-of-region folks then turn around and use those resources to commit network abuse, and perhaps even violations of their ARIN contractual commitments, e.g. by filling up large IPv4 CIDRs with just one single IP-hungry snowshoe spamming operation. So, my hope is a simple one: That ARIN should henceforth save its remaining precious and limited IPv4 resources and give those out to deserving parties which LEGITIMATELY RESIDE WITHIN THE ARIN REGION, and that it should not be quite so easily duped via the use of shell companies on the part of out-of-region parties, be they "bad actors" or otherwise. I mean if there are loopholes big enough to drive a truck through, e.g. with respect to the awarding of "scarce" IPv4 blocks, then perhaps it is time to just dispense entirely with this fiction of RIR regions and merge all five of the existing RIR into a single world-wide number resource agency. It seems to me that we should either do that or else ARIN should stop giving out resources earmarked for this region to what are clearly out-of-region players. I mean don't they have their own region, and shouldn't they be getting their resources from there? I'm sorry if anyone is offended by either my views or my manner of expressing them, but it hurts me to see Iranians and Pakistanis being awarded scarce ARIN IPv4 address blocks while deserving institutions and small businesses right here in North America go hungry for want of those same resources. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ ARIN-PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
