<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br><div><div>On Apr 4, 2014, at 7:31 AM, David Huberman <<a href="mailto:David.Huberman@microsoft.com">David.Huberman@microsoft.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">ARIN is a registry, not a regulator. The more you guys want to</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">build in rules that are anti-competitive and blind to the market</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">reality, the more inaccurate Whois gets.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Operating a registry in a manner that is fair to all means that there need to be rules by which the registry is operated.</div><div><br></div><div>What you are calling anti-competitive rules are what I perceive as rules which prevent abuse of one class of users by another class of users of the registry.</div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; position: static; z-index: auto;"><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Upon v4 exhaustion, we should remove needs basis from</span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">transfers, remove the RSA text that makes the signer disclaim</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">property rights, and motivate registrants to keep Whois accurate</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">so that network operators can get good information about their</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">traffic.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>That is one opinion. I don’t share it, and neither do many other people.</div><div><br></div><div>You’ve offered nothing to show that removing those rules would motivate registrants to keep whois accurate.</div><div><br></div><div>There’s certainly been plenty of speculation that the current rules offer disincentives for doing so, and I’m even willing to accept that to a limited extent, that may be true. However, that’s not the same as showing that removing the rules would provide any incentive in the opposite direction.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br></div></body></html>