Who regulates the "appropriate use" of street addresses?

Matthew Kaufman

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> On Nov 6, 2014, at 10:50 PM, John Von Stein <j...@qxccommunications.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Should Colt be held accountable to police the use of hand guns?  Or Pfizer 
> for medication schedule compliance?   Or teachers for our children’s grades? 
>  
> The point is that ARIN is the administrator of IP numbers but each of us is 
> responsible for the proper use of them.  That said, without enforcement there 
> is no rule of law so the question really is what entity needs to be the 
> enforcer?  The Federal Reserve Bank assesses economic conditions and sets 
> interest rates but it is the Bank Auditor Army that enforces regulatory 
> compliance on the banks themselves. 
>  
> Much like the Fed, IP addresses need to have a segregation of duties between 
> policy-setting and enforcement.  Clearly ARIN is in the policy-setting role 
> already and that’s where they should stay in my humble opinion.  The question 
> is who/what will be the “Bank Examiner” regarding the appropriate use of IP 
> addresses going forward?????
>  
> This whole discussion thread is not about technology, it’s about governance. 
>  
> Thank you,
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> From: arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-boun...@arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Bob Atkins
> Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 7:34 PM
> To: arin-ppml@arin.net
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN IPs and Spammers?
>  
> 
> Trying to regulate IPv4 address space based on who and how it is used is a 
> waste of time anyway.
> 
> Just wait until spammers start using IPv6 space.
> 
> On 11/6/2014 3:59 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> In a word, no.
>  
> ARIN should not be the application police and should not be making value 
> judgments about what addresses are used for.
>  
> While I support industry efforts to eliminate SPAM and support ARIN taking 
> action against inefficient utilization of address space (such as snowshoe 
> spamming), I do not think that we want to go down the very slippery slope of 
> appointing ARIN arbiter of what is good and bad usage of internet addresses.
>  
> Owen
>  
> On Nov 6, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Bon Onlines <bononli...@gmail.com> wrote:
>  
> Hey all,
>  
> What do you think about the number of ARIN ips belongs to spammers
> nowadays? I have done a researched recently and found alot companies
> how have assigned more than thousands of IPs to some spammers around
> the world.
>  
> Do you think such assignments are fair? Shouldn't arin take some steps
> to stop such abuses of ips?
>  
> I would be happy to hear your thoughts.
>  
> Thanks
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