[arin-discuss] Status of Investigations

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> 2. Truth is an absolute defense to claims of libel.

Not here it isn't! You have to go to a court of law in
order to use the "truth" defense. On this list, if you
constantly annoy us then we don't have to pay attention
to you any more or read any of your messages.

> Question: Why is ARIN paying to have the rest of these people 
> learn to configure BGP and configure spam filters, and other 
> technical network operation tasks? This seems to be recoverable.

Question: If you haven't even got the faintest clue of what NANOG
is and what kind of things are discussed at NANOG, then why are
you wasting our time with this nonsense?

> I have a message from a frequent NANOG attendee (13 meetings) 
> who says that a recent IP Address Allocation was done in a 
> few hours, start to finish. This seems quite odd, and 
> contrary to what most people experience. Furthermore, it 
> seems impossible to fully and properly evaluate an IP Address 
> Block request in so short a time.

I have also had at least one IP address allocationthat was done
in a few hours but I have had others, with the same company,
that dragged on for months. The one time that we got it done
in a few hours was also the time that we submitted a full set
of data to backup the request including some charts and graphs
and a full dump of our reassignment data down to the /32 level.
Also, by that time we had established a reasonable reputation 
with ARIN over the course of 4 or 5 allocation requests.

--Michael Dillon

P.S. by now everyone knows where to contact you if they wish to 
join in your legal actions against the ARIN board. Please do
not post anything further to the ARIN mailing lists about this.