<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>Bill<br>You said what I tried to remember and say. :-)<br>You forget "Inside The Beltway" One could never win tortuous interference lawsuit of this nature.<br>We do not speak their language which the Federal Courts also speak in the DC Circuit. :-)<br>It is business as usual for them. :-(<br>They probably would counter-sue us for damages and win. :-(<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"John Curran" <jcurran@arin.net><br><b>To: </b>"William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us><br><b>Cc: </b>"arin-ppml" <arin-ppml@arin.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 25, 2022 4:28:31 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [arin-ppml] Deceased Companies?<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__">
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<div class="">On 25 Jul 2022, at 4:58 PM, William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">ARIN making unilateral changes on an ad-hoc basis? I certainly would hope not. </div>
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<div class="">However, if you are referring changes made accordingly to the policies established </div>
<div class="">by the community, that’s an entirely different matter – and actually fundamental as </div>
<div class="">to why the transition to ARIN – </div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span><i class="">"Creation of ARIN will give the users of IP numbers (mostly Internet service providers, corporations and other large institutions) a voice in the policies by which they are
managed and allocated within the North American region.”</i></div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Internet Moves Toward Privatization, National Science Foundation, June 1997 <<a href="https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102819" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102819</a>></div>
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<div class="">If you’re a legacy resource holder, it’s best to recognize that ARIN’s formation was precisely so </div>
<div class="">that you could gain the ability to participate & gain a voice in policy development for management </div>
<div class="">of the registry (as opposed to having it set by some US government contractor or bureaucrat.) </div>
<div class="">i.e. it’s a lot less murky than you suggest. </div>
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<div class="">Thanks! </div>
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