<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:01 PM Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
In message <CAN-Dau04sWS7k6v411MWtFQFn0eq__m3y1m5Cd5Uc=<a href="mailto:ZrQ1jVcA@mail.gmail.com" target="_blank">ZrQ1jVcA@mail.gmail.com</a>><br>
David Farmer <<a href="mailto:farmer@umn.edu" target="_blank">farmer@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br><br>
>I'm pretty sure this isn't over for these guys, this is just the start of<br>
>their problems.<br>
><br>
>Be patient, "the wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine."<br>
<br>
Swell. Unfortunately, there is still the problem that you yourself just<br>
raised. What happens to the innocents when the dust finally settles on<br>
a mess like this?<br>
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I am reminded of the old saying: To fail to plan is to plan to fail.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I see evidence of plans, I'm not privy to all the details of them nor should I be, but I know and trust the people we have put in place to know and supervise such things. The Board of Trustees, I'm quite sure they would not have invested $350,000 of member money investigating and following through with the legal process without a plan. If you look back to last October ARIN Staff alerted the community to issues, in the ARIN 42 Policy Experience Report, they told us what they could at the time, but with hindsight, it is quite clear now;</div><div><br></div><div>Presentation: <a href="https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_42/PDF/PPM/sweeting-policy.pdf">https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_42/PDF/PPM/sweeting-policy.pdf</a></div><div>Transcript: <a href="https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_42/ppm1_transcript.html#anchor_5">https://www.arin.net/vault/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_42/ppm1_transcript.html#anchor_5</a></div><div>Video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHgs4wWO58">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHgs4wWO58</a></div><div><br></div><div>Furthermore, I see evidence of plans going back to at least 2009 when the Board required Officer Attestation;</div><div><a href="https://www.arin.net/about/corporate/agreements/attestation/">https://www.arin.net/about/corporate/agreements/attestation/</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>ARIN has invested at least 8 months if not longer in this case so far, and I have confidence that there is more to the plan yet to come to fruition.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature">===============================================<br>David Farmer <a href="mailto:Email%3Afarmer@umn.edu" target="_blank">Email:farmer@umn.edu</a><br>Networking & Telecommunication Services<br>Office of Information Technology<br>University of Minnesota <br>2218 University Ave SE Phone: 612-626-0815<br>Minneapolis, MN 55414-3029 Cell: 612-812-9952<br>=============================================== </div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>