[arin-ppml] "Millions of Internet Addresses Are Lying Idle"(slashdot)

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jo Rhett [mailto:jrhett at svcolo.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:57 PM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] "Millions of Internet Addresses Are 
> Lying Idle"(slashdot)
> 
> 
> On Oct 21, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> > They ARE doing it.  Anyone who has allocated space gets a 
> bill every 
> > year.  If their contact info becomes invalid, the bill then gets
> > returned
> > by USPS and after 6 months or whatever, the account goes to  
> > collections
> > and the allocated IP addressing becomes forfeit.
> 
> 
> That is the billing contact, entirely separate from the POC data.
> 

So you are saying that ARIN still has entries in it's POC database for
orgs that paid for allocations then stopped paying for them a few
years later when those orgs went bankrupt or otherwise disappeared?

I am sure ARIN staff would be most interested in this facinating
interpretation of how badly they mis-manage the WHOIS database.

Ted