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<div class="">On 26 Jul 2022, at 12:45 PM, Michael Peddemors <<a href="mailto:michael@linuxmagic.com" class="">michael@linuxmagic.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">Noticing more cases of IP Assignments for a 'company' with a North American presence, that simply reassigns/reallocates portions of their IP assignments to offshore and foreign companies with no North American presence at all..<br class="">
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How does the intent of ARIN guidelines apply, when a 'shell' company is formed to provide IP ranges for companies outside of the ARIN region?</div>
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<div>Michael –</div>
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<div>The theory is (as laid out in NRPM section 9) that the organization must have "a real and substantial connection with the ARIN region”</div>
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<div>If you are seeing circumstances where this is likely is not the case, please report it - <a href="https://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/" class="">https://www.arin.net/reference/tools/fraud_report/</a></div>
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<div>Thanks!</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
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<div>American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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