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<div class="">On 14 Jul 2022, at 7:36 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette <<a href="mailto:rfg@tristatelogic.com" class="">rfg@tristatelogic.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">In message <<a href="mailto:9CDE9492-A18E-4BAF-A0F8-DD0FCCDA4050@arin.net" class="">9CDE9492-A18E-4BAF-A0F8-DD0FCCDA4050@arin.net</a>>,
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John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net" class="">jcurran@arin.net</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">If you wish that we investigate this matter, please submit a report of the<br class="">
suspected Internet number resources fraud as per this process https://<br class="">
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Thank you John, but I must decline that generous invitation for the following<br class="">
three good and compelling reasons:<br class="">
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1) I cannot, in all honesty and good conscience, report something as<br class="">
"fraud" where the set of pertinent facts, as I have elaborated them,<br class="">
*do not* suggest that there has been any fraud, deceit, or<br class="">
misrepresentation of any kind, at least not on the part of the member<br class="">
organization in question.<br class="">
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<div>If you are correct in your assertions, then the organization will have made a representation of significant connection to the ARIN region in order to be issued number resources (despite having no such connection) – that would indeed constitute a fraud
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<div class=""> 2) I could perhaps just be mis-remembering now, but it is my recollection<br class="">
that the last time I inquired about the nature of any possible follow-up<br class="">
which ARIN might undertake upon its conclusion of any investigation of<br class="">
any case submitted via ARIN's fraud reporting form that neither the<br class="">
original reporter, not the ARIN membership, nor the ARIN community,<br class="">
nor the public at large would ever be informed of the results of any<br class="">
inquiry that had been trigged by a fraud report submitted to ARIN.<br class="">
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ARIN issues quarterly summaries of the results of investigation into fraud reports – <a href="https://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/results/" class="">https://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/results/</a></div>
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<div class="">This reports are not detailed as they nearly always represent a matter which is legal in nature and pending final determination. </div>
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3) The case of 1337 Services LLC (SL-206), which I have gone to some lengths<br class="">
to carefully research and document, raises a host of other questions and<br class="">
concerns about ARIN's ability and willingness to enforce existing<br class="">
ratified policies. It is my feeling that you, John, as CEO, should<br class="">
openly address these concerns and questions, and not simply endeavor<br class="">
to bury them all behind the opaque wall of silence that would seem to<br class="">
be ARIN's formalized "fraud" reporting process.</div>
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<div>ARIN will not publicly discuss details of specific requests for number resources, but does welcome reports of possible fraud and investigates them fully.</div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
<div>American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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