[arin-discuss] Status of Investigations

[Paul Vixie]

> > furthermore, if the employment of former MAPS employees after leaving
> > MAPS ought to reflect on the founders of MAPS somehow, then shouldn't
> > you also do an exhaustive search to find out where every one of them
> > wound up?  (and also for every other company founded by any ARIN board
> > member?)  (or any company where an ARIN board member was an executive?)
> 
> As the managing director of MAPS, you were responsible for training and
> indoctrinating these people.

there were no indoctrinations.  my biggest responsibility was setting policy
and my second biggest was making payroll happen.  while i hold responsibility
for everything done by a MAPS employee, i don't have any control (nor would i
want it) of what folks do after they leave my employ.  perhaps MAPS was not
the kind of company you thought it was, or perhaps the world is not the kind
of place you thought it was.

> It wasn't just one bad apple; It was two.

for all i know, scott richter hired peter and kelly with the challenge of
"please help me run a more responsible organization".  i have no knowledge,
but it sounds like you don't either, so maybe you should ask peter and kelly?

> Did you profit from Whitehat.com?

i'll answer that under separate cover.

> > i find the quality of the investigations so far deplorably low.
> 
> So far, I must agree. It is quite difficult to investigate while stonewalled
> by Management and the Board.  The investigations would be greatly helped if
> ARIN would respond to the questions that have been asked.  Most of the
> information so far has been gleaned from outside of ARIN.

while i don't mind answering questions sent to arin-discuss@ if it'll help
the membership determine the character of their trustees, i think that if you
want an answer from "the board" or "management" you should direct your
inquiries to them by certified letter, perhaps even working through your
attorney who might decide to work through ARIN's attorney.