There's a big difference between signing that the books are right (it matters!) and filling out paperwork for ARIN. The first is one of his primary duties as an officer of the company, the second won't even make his secretary's "to do" list. It appears that ARIN wants to raise the IP addressing space issue to the CxO level -- if it was interested in honesty, ARIN would have required a notarized statement by the person submitting the request. If ARIN really wants to get the interest of CEOs, raise the price! Frank -----Original Message----- From: Jo Rhett [mailto:jrhett@netconsonance.com] Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:25 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:39 PM, Joe Greco wrote:
So the "officer," most likely not being a technical person, is going to contact ... probably the same people who made the request, ask them if they need the space. Right?
And why would the answer be any different, now?
This is exactly identical to having the CEO signed the quarterly statements. You are saying this is Right. The CEO couldn't do that accounting him/herself -- but they're going to ask more questions and be more cautious before putting their name on it. I applaud this idea. I wish we had done it 10 years ago, but it's not too late to start. Before late than never. -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness