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Roman"">ARIN has issued its initial response to ACSP
Suggestion 2012.4. The suggestion and response text are provided
below. This suggestion is now closed and is available at: </span><span
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Suggestion: <br>
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Addresses for Registered Organizations should not be Post Office
Boxes.<br>
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After years of doing business with a wide variety of organizations,
ARIN has found that there are many legitimate businesses who use
Post Office Boxes as their official mailing address. We have had no
technically compelling reason to disallow this and in fact, have
heard of many valid reasons to allow the use of PO Boxes from a
variety of our customers who use them.<br>
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We did a search through the ARIN database and found the following
data relating to the use of PO Boxes:<br>
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Currently, there are a total of 35,102 Org IDs with direct
registrations. 2,450 of them or seven percent have a PO Box
specified in the street address field. Of the 35,102 total
organizations registered, 4,162 of them are ARIN's direct subscriber
members. 444 of them or 11 percent of the members have a PO Box
specified in the street address field.<br>
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Therefore, unless there is some compelling reason that ARIN should
not accept a PO Box as an organization's official mailing address,
ARIN will continue to allow the use of PO boxes.<br>
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Thank you for participating in the ARIN Consultation and Suggestion
Process. This suggestion is now closed.<br>
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