[arin-ppml] Stratus astroturfing

[Owen DeLong]

At the risk of running slightly afoul of John’s previous request, but in the interest of balance…

In fairness, I spoke to the Stratus people at ARIN 44 and encouraged them to submit this proposal.

While I remain neutral to negative in terms of my opinions of the merits of the proposal, I do feel obliged to say that I think they are acting in earnest and that they have organized a legitimate grass roots campaign here based solely on their perception that the emergency policy change was an injustice to their business. I do not get the impression that there are any nefarious motivations or that there is any legitimate basis or evidence to support some of the claims of quid pro quo, etc. that have been made here.

Owen


> On Nov 1, 2020, at 4:39 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> 
> On 11/1/20 3:36 PM, John Curran wrote:
>> Seth -
>> 	Please keep your communications on the PPML mailing list focused on merits or issues with the proposed policy change, and in particular please refrain from making accusations regarding the conduct of others – as such is specifically prohibited per the ARIN Mailing List AUP<https://www.arin.net/participate/community/mailing_lists/aup/>
> 
> 
> Sure, sorry about that.
> 
> I am finding it hard to separate the merits (or lack thereof) of this policy proposal from the motivations behind it, because it's goal is to grant special benefits to a specific set of orgs over everyone else that has to apply under current policy.
> 
> ~Seth
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