[arin-discuss] ARIN spammed us with "talk to the hand" ?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net 
> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Jo Rhett
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 5:35 PM
> To: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: [arin-discuss] ARIN spammed us with "talk to the hand" ?
> 
> Can someone explain to me why ARIN spammed all of our ARIN 
> contacts (including (A)buse contacts!) with a notice that 
> says "talk to the hand" ?
> 

Why don't you e-mail the author of the e-mail at ARIN and ask?

> 
> If ARIN can not and will not do anything to contact these 
> parties and get it resolved, why does it send a notice 
> telling us with this? 

This is an extreme simplification of a complex issue.
ARIN is US and will do anything WE want.  If you want ARIN to
start mediating then SUBMIT A POLICY MODIFICATION.

Once we are post-IPv4 runout, all new IPv4 assignments will
be "dirty" and I imagine this issue will become more serious.
I would in fact support a complaint mechanism at ARIN that would
be specifically for handling complaints about "dirty" address
assignments.  It's too bad that nobody thought to design one
and make participation in it a prerequisite of obtaining
IP addresses, back in the olden days.  But that doesen't mean
that we can't start doing it now.

Ted