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    Oh, I totally agree with you!<br>
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    I just think it'd be hard to enforce.<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2023-05-07 11:22 a.m., Michael B.
      Williams via ARIN-PPML wrote:<br>
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            disagree. While the waitlist may help companies offer
            competitive services for their product lines, it should not
            be the "product" itself. I.e. the offering of IP services
            should be coupled with the actual offering of services.</div>
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            style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">To
            point, if companies offer connectivity-related services,
            such as, but not limited to, hosting, transit, data transit,
            and ISP, I don't have an issue as these are in the spirit of
            what IP resources should be obtained for.</div>
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            style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Obtaining
            IP resources for the purposes of immediately reselling or
            leasing them to companies is not in the spirit of ARIN's
            policies.</div>
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            style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">The
            waitlist should not be designed for companies simply to make
            money by "waiting" in line as a spot holder than reselling
            the IP addresses.</div>
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          <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 7, 2023 at
            2:16 PM Ron Grant <<a href="mailto:ron@balansoft.com"
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            <div> To be honest, the whole purpose of the waitlist is for
              companies to make money from obtaining IP space.  True, we
              usually assume they'll be doing it the old-fashioned way,
              by (gasp) offering services - however I think that somehow
              "tainting" the waitlist-obtained addresses is going to
              cause more trouble than it would prevent.<br>
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              <div>On 2023-05-05 8:58 a.m., Michael B. Williams via
                ARIN-PPML wrote:<br>
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                    style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Are
                    you asking if an entity were to obtain IP space from
                    the waitlist, should they be permitted to lease it
                    to someone else? My answer is a resounding no. That
                    defeats the whole purpose of the waitlist. Entities
                    should not be encouraged to hoard IP space because
                    ARIN will subsidise the cost, allowing a for-profit
                    entity to make money from obtaining IP space.</div>
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