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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/4/2014 7:11 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:<br>
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<div>Or, you could recognize that the intent of the policy and the
reason for that policy is to make those addresses available to
other entities with a more immediate need and behave in the
spirit of the community.</div>
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<div>We can’t make the letter of the law force all organizations
to be good actors. It’s just not practical. The best we can do
is provide policy that expresses the general intent of the
community and hope that the majority of people and organizations
are good actors.</div>
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Once addresses are no longer available from ARIN, all organizations
in need of addresses will be spending real money to acquire them.
They will spend that money as directed by their leadership and their
shareholders to ensure their own perceived need is met, not what
ARIN thinks they need this week. In fact, for public companies to do
otherwise would be irresponsible to their shareholders and
actionable by said shareholders.<br>
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If they are unable to register the addresses, they will still lock
them up in contracts that are none of ARIN's business (and entirely
invisible to ARIN), not "make those addresses available to other
entities with a more immediate need". That's just not going to
happen, for the same reason GM doesn't say "Well, tires are going to
be in short supply for the next couple of quarters. We really should
stop ordering them so other more charitable car makers can get their
share."<br>
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Matthew Kaufman<br>
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ps. I'd also note that "policy that expresses the general intent of
the community" may in fact *be* policy that lets post-runout
transfers be performed without a needs test, as "the community"
consists of a lot more than "Owen".<br>
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