<div><div dir="auto">There’s a much simpler way around this, that I brought up before runout and will bring up again:</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">ARIN should take any IPv4 address space it has post-runout and sell it on the open market at auction.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The only reason there is a potential for fraud is that there is a disparity between the market price and the price of playing ARIN with fraudulent documents significant enough to draw criminal players in.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The revenue could be used for scholarships or IPv6 advocacy or whatever else makes sense.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But what doesn’t make sense is giving away resources that the market has clearly valued at a higher price.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Matthew Kaufman</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 7:19 AM John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 17 May 2019, at 2:57 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" target="_blank">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> ...This whole epic $10 million dollar Micfo goof up could<br>
> have been stopped in its tracks, at the outset, 4+ years ago, when it<br>
> was just getting off the ground, if ARIN has just done these ridiculously<br>
> simple and cost-free online 30 second checks on each of the bogus shell<br>
> companies involved.<br>
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The above assertion is likely false, since we know that perpetrators of false requests are proven adaptable, and can reasonably expect that any party willing to engage in false notarizations would promptly conduct the necessary registrations; i.e. while such a check would have slowed down the first request which did not comply, the formality would inevitably been addressed in subsequent requests. <br>
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