Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests

[rs at seastrom.com (Robert E. Seastrom)]

>> 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.
>
> No.  Those are two entirely different problems.
>
> A notary signs only that the person in front of them has been checked
> to be who they say they are.  That's authentication. A Notary cannot
> attest that what is on the document is valid.

Actually, a notary can administer oaths, and the requirement from ARIN
ought to require an attestation of the accuracy of the data submitted
under oath or affirmation if we're going to go down that route.

http://www.commonwealth.virginia.gov/OfficialDocuments/Notary/2008NotaryHandBook.pdf

-r