[arin-ppml] Looking at just the pro and con merits of 2009-1 review

[Matthew Kaufman]

Azinger, Marla wrote:
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*I have a serious problem with this one. As an entrepreneur I have 
created and/or purchased over a half-dozen companies which use IP 
address space.

It would be fatal to some of these businesses for their IP address 
management to be lumped together simply because I am the majority owner 
of more than one of these. Among other things, it would drastically 
complicate things when I (as I often do) sell these entities to new 
owners or investors. As an example, I recently sold a podcasting-related 
entity shortly after I acquired a wireless ISP. Both used IP addresses, 
but in vastly different ways. Both are separate legal entities, one a 
California corporation which is now dissolved and whose assets are part 
of the Texas corporation, the other a Delaware corporation. There should 
be no reason why two different corporations should be required to share 
management of their IP address space simply as a consequence of their 
current ownership.

Ask any company doing private equity buyouts if they want to be managing 
the IP address space for the various types of companies under their 
control, as another example.

Matthew Kaufman
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