<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">FYI. This message was posted to NANOG yesterday, but is probably of significant interest to PPML participants.<div>-Benson</div><div><br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">"Peter Thimmesch" <<a href="mailto:peter.thimmesch@depository.net">peter.thimmesch@depository.net</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">April 19, 2011 8:08:42 PM CDT<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><<a href="mailto:nanog@nanog.org">nanog@nanog.org</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>IPv4 address exchange</b><br></span></div><br><div>John,<br><br><br><br>Please note that we have filed our proposal for accreditation of IP address<br>registrars with ICANN over a month ago. (Please see ICANN's Correspondence<br>Page, Letters from David Holtzman to David Olive and John Jeffrey, filed 2<br>March 2011, Proposed Statement of IP Policy)<br><<a href="http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/statement-ip-address-registrar-accre">http://www.icann.org/en/correspondence/statement-ip-address-registrar-accre</a><br>ditation-policy-31mar11-en.pdf ><br><br><br><br>In addition we pointed out, in our opinion, that the current process for<br>reviewing and approving a Global Policy is somewhat skewed towards the<br>Regional Internet Registries. Hence we requested that due to this obvious<br>and readily apparent Conflict-of-Interest (yes, I expect you will disagree<br>with even this, which is so clear that to debate this would be simply too<br>much even by the new standards that you have set recently in your online<br>arguments with Prof. Mueller) we explore other forums to have the merits of<br>the proposal aired. <br><br><br><br>Regards, <br><br><br><br>Peter Thimmesch<br><br>Chairman<br><br><br><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>