And so it ends...

[ernesto at cs.fiu.edu (Ernie Rubi)]

I think it's OK to say you cannot/would rather not answer the question, instead of giving a non-answer.  I was trying to follow along with your 'the community acquiescence gives us the legal right to take back legacy IP addresses' argument.

Cheers,

Ernie

On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:58 PM, John Curran wrote:

> On Feb 3, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Ernie Rubi wrote:
> 
>> OK so the argument is the 'community' is ARIN's source of legal authority or is it the corporate laws of the State of Virginia?
> 
> Mr. Rubi - 
> 
> ARIN operates the ARIN WHOIS database as part of the mission of 
> organization in serving the community, and we're incorporated in 
> the State of Virginia as nonstock corporation pursuant to the 
> Virginia Nonstock Corporation Act. Our corporate documents are
> available here: 
>   <https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs.html>
> 
> Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have further questions.
> /John
> 
> John Curran 
> President and CEO
> ARIN