[arin-discuss] ARIN Election Processes and Email Campaigning

[Martin Hannigan]

I agree. Interesting, but Mister Curran has the convincing point. The
objective could be to optimize on that. How? Ha. Thats why he gets the big
bucks.

Pro tip: People with bad unsubscribes? Look for local aliases.

Cheers,

-M<


On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 19:02 Mike Hammett <mike.hammett at ics-il.com> wrote:

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> *From: *"John Curran" <jcurran at arin.net>
> *To: *"Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
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> *Subject: *[arin-discuss] ARIN Election Processes and Email Campaigning
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> On 16 Oct 2018, at 8:06 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
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> Perhaps we should disallow election spam rather than changing the
> opt-in/opt-out policy for arin-discuss.
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> Owen - You have perfect timing, as I was about to send a message to reopen
> this discussion…
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>
> Folks -
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> Last week, while our election was underway, I sent the following to
> arin-discuss:  "Once this election is complete, we can then enjoy a
> discussion of whether any changes to our Whois terms of use (or our
> election processes in general) is warranted in this regard. "
>
> I will note that ARIN’s 2018 election is complete –
> https://www.arin.net/announcements/2018/20181015.html
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> I’d like to congratulate all of those elected, and thank everyone who ran
> for the ARIN Board, ARIN AC, or the NRO NC.
>
> With this election complete, it’s now timely to discuss the matter of
> campaign emails.  As many of you are aware, ARIN is required to provide the
> list of organizations that are eligible to vote in each election, and while
> we do not include email addresses in that list, each year we have several
> folks up for election who send emails to the electorate asking for their
> support.
>
> ARIN’s stance on this has historically been that those people who receive
> the emails asking for support are in the best position to weigh the merits
> of each candidate and their email practices, and thus we do not
> specifically encourage or prohibit such communications in the election
> processes.  Similarly, ARIN’s terms of use for its ARIN Whois service does
> not specifically prohibit use of Whois data for election outreach purposes,
> and it is apparent that some candidates are using ARIN Whois to obtain
> related email addressed for their campaigning.
>
> It would be good to discuss ARIN’s current stance on this issue, in order
> to inform the ARIN Board in their consideration if any change is warranted.
>
>
> To the end, please comment on the question:  “Should ARIN’s election
> processes prohibit bulk campaign email  to the electorate, or is the
> present approach suitable as-is?”
>
> Thanks!
> /John
>
> John Curran
> President and CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers
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