<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Thank you. This is helpful and I am glad that the board is able to form their own opinion of the responses and are not bound by the voting or suggestions on the list. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Out of curiosity, aside for good morals, what is to stop a company from internally suggesting that their employees respond to this PPLM vote in their individual unaffiliated status with support for the company's request for consideration?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">As far as I understand it individuals are free to contribute to the PPML as unaffiliated individuals especially since individuals themselves are also able to hold internet number resources. In this instance, each of the company's/organization's employees or even clients for that matter could come here supporting the request for consideration and qualify as "individual" entities that count towards the 25 person limit and as long as they do not respond on behalf of the company their votes would count towards the require number for reconsideration.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">While I have not seen this process abused in the past, my thought is that it's ripe for abuse should bad actors come into play. Given the significant cost associated with number resources now we have seen more incentive for bad actors (as we all observed over the past year).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">I'd hope the board will consider going forward altering how the "votes" are tallied for consideration otherwise anyone who is unhappy with any decision made by any part of ARIN will be appealing to the board and tying up their valuable time with sometimes fruitless and baseless claims. I want to caviet I am not suggesting that this appeal falls into that category, but it's got me thinking.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">To point out, right now you could have 25 individuals who have absolutely no incentive or even care how this policy goes one way or another pushing policy towards reconsideration. At least if the 25 votes had to come from member organizations/individuals we would know the people have "skin in the game" as the policies of ARIN directly impact them. From a theoretical perspective there's nothing stopping someone from posting on their social media "Hi friends send ARIN PPML an email for me it'll help my company"</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Again, I suppose and hope the board will see through this and not let baseless reconsideration requests tie up their valuable time, but the fact that it is possible also scares me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Regards,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Michael</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1"><hr size="1" width="100%" noshade align="center"></font></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:navy"><font size="1">Michael B. 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The PDP has always kept low thresholds for petition processes as a petition doesn’t automatically adopt a policy but simply advances it further in the process. At this point, staff are only evaluating the criteria that there be 25 individuals in the time period indicated and that those individuals not be from the same organization to determine if the petition is successful.<br><br>If the threshold is met the policy will be put before the Board of Trustees for consideration. The Board does not “count” the votes when weighing community support or the policy. The Board instead will need to weigh quite a bit of data against the Principles of Internet Number Resource Policy stated in the PDP and this includes community support. The Board will ultimately come to its own view as to whether the policy change meets the criteria, as a successful petition simply brings it before them for consideration.<br><br>The Board (and staff) are observing this process and comments on the list will be considered. The community (including the AC) should feel free to, and are fact highly encouraged to, engage in meaningful discussion of the merits of the policy. If members of the community have questions for other community members they are free to ask those. The only reminder is any such discussion MUST follow the ARIN Mailing List Appropriate Usage Policy.<br><br>The Board appreciates all those who engage in this process and strongly encourages everyone in the community to engage here. Our decision process is always enhanced by plentiful community input.<br><br>Cheers,<br><br>Paul<br><br><div>—</div><div>Paul Andersen, P. Eng<br>Chair, ARIN Board of Trustees<br><a href="mailto:paul@arin.net" target="_blank">paul@arin.net</a><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jan 14, 2021, at 11:00 AM, Michael B. Williams <<a href="mailto:Michael.Williams@glexia.com" target="_blank">Michael.Williams@glexia.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Question for ARIN Employees/ others on PPLM -</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">How does ARIN analyze the response from this? Is there weight given only to ARIN member organizations or any organization? If anyone is given consideration, what is to stop people from lobbying individuals and other organizations to send an email to support their agenda? For example, I could very easily find 500 people to respond to this email saying they do not support the policy. If I were a malicious actor trying to influence policy discussion and were to offer some sort of incentive for those to reply I could easily have thousands of organizations supporting this policy one way or another. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">My feelings would be the majority of the weight should be given to ARIN member organizations voices as part of the tallying process. If that is the case, perhaps we should ask those organizations to include their ARIN org id?</div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><font size="1"><br></font></div><div align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><font size="1"><hr size="1" width="100%" noshade align="center"></font></span></div><p style="margin-bottom:12pt"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:navy"><font size="1">Michael B. 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Per ARIN's Policy Development Process (PDP), all Recommended Draft Policies not sent to the ARIN Board of Trustees for adoption consideration within 60 days of Last Call completion will revert to Draft Policy status.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Anyone may take part in this petition. Per ARIN's PDP, a petition for Board of Trustees adoption consideration will require support from 25 individuals from 25 distinct organizations to be considered successful. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">To support this petition for Board of Trustees adoption consideration of ARIN-2020-2, simply send a response to the Public Policy Mailing list indicating your support and including your full name and organization.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">This petition window will remain open for five days, closing 16 January.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">If successful by the end of the five-day period, the petition details and results will be forwarded to the Board of Trustees for adoption consideration at their next meeting.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">For more information on the PDP, visit: <a href="https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/" target="_blank">https://www.arin.net/participate/policy/pdp/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Sean Hopkins<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">Policy Analyst<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt">American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>
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