In message <[email protected]>, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote:
>ARIN has significantly tightened our review of requester's location >(particularly with regard to potential OFAC concerns) over the last two >years, as it came to our attention that parties were getting more creative >in this regard. That's music to my ears John! And that statement alone goes a long way towards allaying my concerns. >If you feel that ARIN has issued resources based on fraudulent information, >please report it <https://www.arin.net/resources/fraud/> and we will >investigate. Thanks, but I perhaps have not been clear. Let me try again. To the best of my knowledge it is not an inherently "fradulent" act for a person or other legal entity resident outside of the ARIN region to create a Delaware, Nevada, or Wyoming corporation or LLC, perhaps even with so-called "nominee" officers/directors. Likewise and similarly, to the best of my knowledge it is not an inherently "fradulent" act for any such corporation or LLC to then request number resources from ARIN. In short, I have no "fraud" per se to report. Nontheless, as I have already expressed, I cannot help being dismayed by my recently obtained knowledge that a certain Iranian gentleman, by way of a Delaware, Nevada, or Wyoming corp/LLC, obtained an ARIN- issued /19 or by my also recently obtained knowledge that a certain Pakistani gentleman having -no- apparent legally constituted business within the ARIN region, nontheless somehow obtained an entire ARIN- issued /17. The fact that the two blocks in question were subsequently used for what I personally feel are less than honorable purposes is only what happeened to bring these blocks to my attention. But I certainly do not ask or expect ARIN to take on the "Internet Police" role with respect to those separate issues. I can and do however bemoan the fact that the two blocks in question were issued AT ALL... apparently to two fundamentally out-of-region players. I bemoan these awards of valuable IPv4 real estate and for the reasons I've already stated... reasons which don't clearly implicate any acts of "fraud" per se, at least not under the laws of the relevant country (U.S.) or those of the relevant U.S. states in question. Bottom line? If goofballs from outside of ARIN's North American and Caribbean geographical region feel the need to get chunks of IPv4 space and then preceed to use those to screw up the Internet, then I for one would greatly prefer it if they were at least forced to obtain their IPv4 space from either legitimate broker transactions or preferably from their own Regional Internet Registries. _______________________________________________ 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.
