[arin-ppml] Does this apply to Transfers too?

[Dan.Thorson at seagate.com]

John Curran <jcurran at istaff.org> wrote on 04/21/2009 10:31:56 AM:

> On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Dan.Thorson at seagate.com wrote:
> > Huh?  You think the CEO of any large company would actually be
> > involved in an IP addr request or transfer?
>
> If the organization wants to receive an allocation of an increasingly
> scarce global resource, they'll need to make some officer available to
> state that the application is accurate.  While this may be difficult
> in larger organizations, the importance of insuring accurate need-based
> applications is paramount.

I guess it all comes down to how we define "officer."  Reading through
https://www.arin.net/resources/agreements/officer_attest.html I'm not sure
I would know who ARIN would deem an acceptable "officer" of my company.
Please understand that executives won't sign anything unless they
understand it (under the guise of SOX)... and I would be hard-pressed to
find an executive of most any large corporation who would be able "to
attest to the validity of the information provided to ARIN." (I suppose the
CEO of an ISP might be cluefull about IP allocations, but no others.)

You say difficult... I say impossible.

So do we forge a signature?  No.
So do we pretend that a manager who understands the request is an
"officer"?  No.
Rock --> us <-- Hard-place

danT