Frankly, I have no idea what the real reason is. But I can see two speculative possibilites: 1) They killed Kennedy, and have been getting payoffs ever since. 2) Perhaps, since the Internet is rapidly growing in Asia, and since 1/4 of the worlds population lives there, they have been given enough address space to bring much of that population online. Presumably, a private company doesn't have to report how much taxes is pays or doesn't pay.
Why does a private company like APNIC, set up in an off-shore haven like the Seychelles, and operating out of Tokyo, with apparently no taxes being paid to Japan[2], be allowed to obtain additional IPv4 address space with apparently no justification and an admission of poor record keeping while U.S. ISPs and other companies around the world are put through the ringer for a few IPv4 addresses ?
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