<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=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 2, 2020, at 4:44 PM, Mike Burns <<a href="mailto:mike@iptrading.com" class="">mike@iptrading.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">ARIN got wind of fraud and the Executive Board unilaterally ceased Waiting List processing without a change in rules.</span></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">Hi,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ARIN uses the ARIN Policy Development Process (The “PDP”) to produce Number Policy that ARIN ultimately follows.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Section 10.2 of the PDP allows the ARIN Board of Trustees, upon receiving credible information that a policy is flawed in such a way that it may cause significant problems if it continues to be followed, the Board of Trustees may suspend the policy and request a recommendation from the AC on how to proceed. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In this case the Board reviewed the data provided and decided this was the correct course of action.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m not sure I would agree with your characterization of “without a change in the rules”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Paul Andersen</div><div class="">Chair, ARIN Board of Trustees</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>