In message <camdxq5m-vxnk1fscye1kxumb1fflesdx7hfglg-qcppe2fz...@mail.gmail.com>, Martin Hannigan <[email protected]>u wrote:
>> There are a lot of things that ARIN should clearly not waste its time on. >> Knowing whether its members are alive or dead is not one of them. > > >How big [real] is the problem? One body? Or five hundred? I had a premonition that someone might ask that. The honest answer is: I don't know. But I can certainly imagine that if some totally impartial party were to volunteer, then we could put all of the handles for all of the ARIN member orgs into a hat, and then have the impartial party draw from the hat, say, one hundred org handles at random, and then those could all be scrutinized with an eye towards detmining how many are clearly live, how many are clearly dead, and how many are incorporated in jurisdictions where it is simply not possible to tell. The results from the random sample could then, I think, be extrapolated to the universe of ARIN member orgs, thus producing estimates of total live, total dead, and total indeterminate. I certainly have every belief and faith that at the present moment there is likely more than one ARIN membership that is associated with a dead person or entity. Consider that I appear to have found _two_ such, just by sniffing around the edges of one particular clump of unambiguous online anti-social nastiness that happened to cross my personal line-of-sight. How many other dead members may there be out there that have avoided all scrutiny from anyone, simply by keeping their heads down and doing nothing which is controversial, remarkable, or even noteworthy. 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.
