<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I not only don't support this proposal, but I'll bring a heavy heavy hammer to try and destroy it if it goes farther. This is the worst kind of policy.</div><div><br></div>I believe that this entire discussion falls under what in another community is called "fandom wank", mostly a "I wouldn't have designed it this way!" discussion.<div><br></div><div>There are other RIRs. </div><div>They have their own policies, and those policies are voted in by their members.</div><div>I strongly disagree that ARIN should do anything at all that would allow a member to use ARIN IP space in their region to circumvent their policies.</div><div><br></div><div>Absolutely nothing anyone says on this list is going to change my mind. I don't care if they eat babies at that RIR, it's a policy decision there and it's not our job to undermine it.</div><div><br><div>
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