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<div class="">A very reasonable question, and the answer is: yes, there are policies in place to prevent ARIN employees from situations that might create a conflict of interest and/or the perception of a conflict of interest. </div>
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<div class="">One example would be our Employee Gift Policy (which is available on the website at <<a href="https://www.arin.net/about/corporate/documents/gift_policy/" class="">https://www.arin.net/about/corporate/documents/gift_policy/</a>> – I will work
to get the other applicable employee policies similarly posted. </div>
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Thanks!
<div class="">/John</div>
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<div class="">John Curran</div>
<div class="">President and CEO</div>
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On 15 Oct 2019, at 10:53 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" class="">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">Greetings all,<br class="">
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I hope that no one will take this the Wrong Way. I really do not<br class="">
have any intention of even remotely suggesting any untwoward behavior<br class="">
on the part of anyone associated in any way with ARIN, but I would<br class="">
like to ask a question here which I have already have asked also on<br class="">
some of the other RIR policy mailing lists, and which it is my intention<br class="">
to ask all five of the Regional Internet Registries.<br class="">
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Quite simply, the last dozen years or so have seen a dramatic rise<br class="">
in value, basically from zero to some very large numbers, for salable<br class="">
IPv4 address blocks. This rapid and steep rise in value has created<br class="">
some incentives for people that, a dozen years ago, didn't even exist.<br class="">
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Quite obviously, staff members of the various RIRs are in a rather unique<br class="">
position to profit from these recent rises in the value of IPv4 addresses<br class="">
over the past few years, if they elected to do so.<br class="">
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For this reason, I wish to ask the following simple question:<br class="">
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Does ARIN have any sort of conflict of interest or other sorts of<br class="">
ethical rules which would prohibit ARIN staff members from actively<br class="">
participating, either directly or indirectly, in the current open<br class="">
market for IPv4 address space?<br class="">
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I've attempted already to answer this question for myself. I did some<br class="">
googling around, and I did find that there appear to be clear rules<br class="">
governing possible conflicts of interest in the case of ARIN board<br class="">
members, but I was unable to find any similar sorts of policies that<br class="">
might apply to ARIN staff members. So I want to ask: Are there any<br class="">
such?<br class="">
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I wish to stress again that no one should make any inferences at all,<br class="">
based on my question, and that it is my intention to put this same<br class="">
question to all five of the Regional Internet Registries.<br class="">
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Regards,<br class="">
rfg<br class="">
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