I agree but who is, the people who need and use the allocations legitimately 
are hurt by people who lease or sell them at an extreme profit, its frustrating 
enough companies sit on them an have no intention of using them just because of 
their value.  Tying to curb the abuse I understand but I also agree there is 
very limited ways of dealing with these issues.
 
Joel Large
General Manager
GLW Broadband Inc.
440-926-3230
www.glwb.net
 
From: ARIN-PPML <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Brian Jones
Sent: Friday, March 1, 2019 9:42 AM
To: David Farmer <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2019-2: Waiting List Block Size 
Restriction
 
I agree with David that it is not the intended function of ARIN to police bad 
actors, however it is important to be able to keep allocations documented as 
well as possible. It is very difficult to predetermine bad actors and I’m not 
sure there is any way in policy to verify that definitively or if it is even 
worth the effort to try. Bad actors will be bad actors and network operators 
continue to find ways to mitigate issues from bad actors almost on a daily 
basis any more. I don’t see that changing regardless of what policy the ARIN 
community adopts. 
 
A huge +1 to this statement;
 
“...but punishing those bad actors is not ARIN's role in society. ARIN needs to 
manage the risk they represent to ARIN's mission and support those that society 
has charged with dealing with them, generally law enforcement. "
 
—
Brian
 
 
 
On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 11:13 AM David Farmer <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:
 
 
On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:51 PM Ronald F. Guilmette <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> > wrote:

In message <[email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]> >, 
[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>  wrote:

>Also needed is language that M&A and Bankruptcy transfers of the 
>IPv4 addresses can only happen when they are transferred to a new owner 
>ALONG WITH the underlying network equipment/business using those IPv4 
>addresses.

That may not even be good enough to prevent abuse.
 
First, the mission of ARIN and the primary goal of its policies is not to 
prevent or even limit abuse, the primary goal of ARIN policy is to allocate 
resources in support of the operation of the Internet, through policies that 
are fair and impartial, technically sound, and supported by the community that 
has to abide by them.
 
Limiting abuse while important and necessary is actually a secondary goal and 
the tactics needed to outright prevent abuse are probably run counter to the 
primary goal. Remember everything you do to limit bad actors also creates 
burdens on the good actors too, so this is always a balancing act. I not saying 
good actors should have no burdens, but this is a risk management exercise. The 
level of the burden we put on good actors needs to be commensurate with the 
risk bad actors represent to ARIN's mission. 
 
ARIN could probably greatly limit abuse by requiring proof of 5-year active 
credit history or $10,000 surety bond for all new organizations doing business 
with ARIN. But that would create a significant burden for many legitimate 
organizations starting out. Good actors and bad actors look pretty much the 
same at first, it takes multiple interactions to develop a pattern that could 
confirm any suspicions that an entity is a bad actor.
 
Nobody should ever underestimate the creativity of financially motivated
and ethically bankrupt actors.
 
I'm not, but punishing those bad actors is not ARIN's role in society. ARIN 
needs to manage the risk they represent to ARIN's mission and support those 
that society has charged with dealing with them, generally law enforcement. 
 
Microsoft used to sell certain Windows licenses with the stiputaion that
they were only to be used in conjunction with new computers.

It didn't take long for the bottom feeders to start reselling said
Windows licenses along with one of the following "new computers":

https://bit.ly/2EA1ix6
 
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Office of Information Technology
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