<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I agree with Ronald’s comments here. It is a disservice to the community to cite abuse in previous waiting list requests and not publicize said abuse for scrutiny.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best Regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""><div class="">
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<div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Feb 26, 2019, at 2:51 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" class="">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">In message <<a href="mailto:39f01673-b743-7358-b41a-bc7ea93500aa@arin.net" class="">39f01673-b743-7358-b41a-bc7ea93500aa@arin.net</a>>, <br class="">ARIN <<a href="mailto:info@arin.net" class="">info@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Draft Policy ARIN-2019-2: Waiting List Block Size Restriction<br class=""><br class="">Problem Statement:<br class=""><br class="">A substantial amount of misuse of the waiting list is suspected by ARIN <br class=""></blockquote>...<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The problem is serious enough that the ARIN Board of Trustees has <br class="">suspended issuance of number resources while a solution to this problem <br class="">is found...<br class=""></blockquote><br class=""><br class="">Although I heartily applaud any and all efforts by ARIN to reduce either<br class="">the opportunities for, or the incentivies for "gaming the system", I have<br class="">to say that it is my feeling that it is not exactly fair to ask the<br class="">community to pass judgement, one way or the other, on a proposal which<br class="">is based on some rather startling claims AND where absolutely -zero-<br class="">factual documentation is provided to back up those claims. I quote:<br class=""><br class=""> The problem is serious enough that the ARIN Board of Trustees has<br class=""> suspended issuance of number resources while a solution to this<br class=""> problem is found...<br class=""><br class="">So, the ARIN community is being asked to take on faith the assertion<br class="">that there are vast unseen hoards of entities that are, and that have<br class="">been, gaming the system in the manner described, even though not a<br class="">single one of these is identified by name. Have I misunderstood?<br class=""><br class="">I, for one, have no doubts that there are indeed plenty of rational<br class="">actors (in the economic sense) who would most certainly seek to work<br class="">within the outer limits of existing policies, and seek their own<br class="">private economic advantage without regard for such niceties as respect<br class="">for the intent of existing policies or for the reasonable stewardship<br class="">of number resourcs in the general interest of all. But who are these<br class="">allegedy greedy actors in this specific instance? And how many of<br class="">them are there, actually?<br class=""><br class="">To the extent that whoever is bringing this proposal forward is<br class="">deliberately avoiding transparency about who is doing the things claimed,<br class="">that person or persons is/are doing a disservice to this proposal, to<br class="">their own objectives in putting it forward, and to the ARIN community<br class="">generally, which is now being asked to pass on a resolution in the<br class="">utter absence of any evidence at all to support its underlying premise.<br class=""><br class="">I hope that this point, i.e. the utter lack of supporting evidence<br class="">for this proposal, will not go unnoticed, especially as it is<br class="">illustrative of an even larger and an even more longstanding problem.<br class=""><br class="">To put in bluntly, ARIN has a problem, and has had, for a very long<br class="">time now. On the one hand, it seeks to hold itself up as a good<br class="">shepard of the number resources in its porfolio, acting in an always<br class="">even handed manner for the benefit of the community as a whole, while<br class="">on the other hand, as evidenced by the total lack of supporting<br class="">documentation for this proposal, it also still tries to act like some<br class="">old-school old boy's club, conveniently hiding the dirty laundry away<br class="">whenever out-of-town guests arrive. These two goals are, I would argue,<br class="">fundamentally incompatible.<br class=""><br class="">There are two opposite poles here. There is transparancy and the public<br class="">good, and then there is secrecy, skulduggery and subterfuge. Anyone who<br class="">has been closely following the headlines of late should know that by now.<br class=""><br class="">My only wish is that ARIN would pick one or the other of these poles<br class="">and then own it. I understand that there exists this long tradition<br class="">of trying to straddle both, of pretending to be acting in the interests<br class="">of the General Good while still keeping utterly confidential all of the<br class="">dirty little secrets of ARIN's constituent commercial entities, but it<br class="">really is getting old and tiresome. And it does not serve the common<br class="">good.<br class=""><br class="">I seriously doubt that anything I say here will result in any sudden<br class="">new blossming of transparanecy on the part of ARIN, and I do not<br class="">seriously anticipate that any of the people who know the actual facts<br class="">with respect to the alleged "gaming" are ever going to actually or<br class="">publicly out any of the alleged swarm of Bad Actors that, we are told,<br class="">are doing this gaming in large numbers. But I can and do hope, at least,<br class="">that the people on this list will forgive me this indelicate outburst,<br class="">and try to understand that I felt compelled to make it.<br class=""><br class="">I see rampant abuse of the Internet, day in and day out, every bit of which<br class="">involves number resources, said resources having been obtained, by hook or<br class="">by crook, and virtually all of this online evil that I see is the proverbial<br class="">"riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma", apparently because the<br class="">Good Stewards of the address space wanted it that way. Therefore, my friends,<br class="">please do not begrudge me for asking for a little transparency from time<br class="">to time, even if I know ahead of time that I'm totally unlikely to get it.<br class="">Call me old-fashioned if you like, but I'd just like to know, every once<br class="">and awhile, who exactly is screwing me and/or all of us. That alone would<br class="">be a most refreshing change.<br class=""><br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">rfg<br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________<br class="">ARIN-PPML<br class="">You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to<br class="">the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List (<a href="mailto:ARIN-PPML@arin.net" class="">ARIN-PPML@arin.net</a>).<br class="">Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at:<br class=""><a href="https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml" class="">https://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml</a><br class="">Please contact info@arin.net if you experience any issues.<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>