John, this is a pretty lame response, I think you have substituted length for 
accuracy here in order to make it appear as if you have more of an argument 
than you do. But in reality you are just repeating, over and over again, the 
speculation that monetary gain would become a decisive factor with judges.

See responses in line.

Consider that revocation in a matter of fraud & revocation, such as was 
recently performed and documented here - 
<https://teamarin.net/2019/05/13/taking-a-hard-line-on-fraud/>

MM: Are you forgetting that the REASON this fraud occurred was because you were 
handing out reclaimed addresses for free on the wait list?

In such a situation, our revocation is compliant with terms of service in the 
registration services agreement, with a successful result facilitating recovery 
of resources fraudulently obtained and their reissurance to the community.

MM: Under the proposed policy, all revocations would also be compliant with 
terms of service, would they not? Or are you saying that ARIN staff, including 
yourself, would suddenly invent reasons to revoke resources in order to sell 
them? Hey, I have more confidence in you and the ARIN staff than that.

there is no significant financial benefit to ARIN.  If instead ARIN were 
revoking the resources with the intent of monetizing them

MM: Whoa. Where in the proposed policy does it say that ARIN revokes resources 
in order to monetize them? It doesn’t, there is no such intent. ARIN would 
revoke resources for the same reasons and using the same criteria as it does 
now. Auctioning them off post hoc is just the best way to kill incentives to 
game the wait list and the fairest and most efficient way to know who to give 
them to.

I am not a lawyer, but can say from firsthand experience that ARIN’s present 
stance as administrator and steward of the registry makes dealing with many 
disputes rather straightforward, and if we were a party of significant 
financial interest in the outcomes, then there are various legal options for 
enforcement that would become quite challenging or altogether unavaialble, and 
thus require us to go further down the litigation/arbitration to obtain the 
appropriate outcomes for the community.  This is not a “highly speculative” 
outcome of monetization, but rather inevitable outcome as judges reasonable view

MM: This is pure speculation. You do not have a single fact or a single case to 
back it up.

With enough effort, we’re likely to achieve the same outcome in the end, but it 
is readily apparent to be that becoming a party with a strong financial 
incentive in this manner will raise the cost and uncertainty of our legal 
proceedings.

MM: And this conclusion is based on what facts?

If ARIN’s policies directed that we would monetize the recovered resources 
(even if then using the proceeds for the benefit of the community), I am 
confident that we would be still be in litigation over the particular fraud 
referenced above.

MM: This is pure speculation. You have no basis for this claim.  Here is my 
response: If ARIN’s policies directed that we would auction the recovered 
resources I am confident that the particular fraud referenced above would 
_never have happened in the first place_, and the outcome of any litigation 
would not have been affected. (We can trade “I am confident that…” claims all 
day)

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