John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: >ARIN has not been directed by the community in any policy to embark on a >general review >of all entities in the ARIN database looking for ?dead and defunct corporate >entities? - so if >this is what you are suggesting, then you are correct - such a task would be >very low priority >indeed.
I should clarify that I am _not_ proposing and that I shall not be proposing that ARIN staff should proactively launch a search for dead/defunct/dissolved ARIN resource-holding customers. Indeed there seems to be no need for that, as I and other volunteers can do that job. (I have already found over a dozen such defunct entities that remain ARIN resource holders, just by surveying a small, semi-random sample of ARIN IPv4 resource customers.) The problem isn't finding these things. The problem is that ARIN clearly doesn't want to *do* anything about these cases, even when ARIN is informed about them. The example of CENTA-3, which ARIN sat on, and which it is still sitting on, with no action for nearly two years now makes that altogether clear and obvious. I stopped working on my random sample survey after awhile because it started to just be ridiculous. Frankly, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. These things are not at all hard to find, and there are a lot of them. There are some 31,000+ direct resource customers of ARIN represented within the current ARIN WHOIS data base. And that isn't even counting the organizations that hold only ASNs but no IP address resources. If a mere 10% of those are legally dissolved now, then that means that some 3,100 of them could have their IP block resources reclaimed and eventually redistributed to the 407 legit and legal organizations that are currently sitting patiently on the ARIN Wait List, thus easly eliminating the Wait List altogether, and several times over. That would be an Absolute Good. And lest anyone incorrectly think that only 10% of ARIN current direct resource customers are dead, defunct, and dissolved former corporate entities, allow me to here dissuade you of any such notion. Based upon my own very limited random sample, my conclusion is that the true figure may be *conservatively* estimated to be much higher, and in fact somewhere well north of 25%. (I was going to say "well north of 30%" but if I did, none of you would believe me, so let's just call it 25%.) But of course, none of that matters so long as ARIN staff have been given the order to do nothing, even about the dead companies they are told about. 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.
