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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">The ARIN Board believes that it is not within ARIN's authority to unilaterally </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">make specialized allocations of the sort proposed in 2011-5. The ARIN Board</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br>
</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">recommends that any efforts in support of such an allocation be directed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> t</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">owards </span>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">the IETF.</span></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">FYI,</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">/John </font></div>
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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">John Curran</font></div>
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