🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <6hd67s$6s2$1@news.ncal.verio.com>,
Roger Marquis  <not-for-mail@roble.com> wrote:
>In comp.protocols.tcp-ip paul@No-UCE.anastrophe.com wrote:
>>Your parti pris is only thinly disguised by the ad hominem. For want of a
>>cogent argument...
>
>If we could get this thread off of the ad hominem track for just a
>minute and actually read the original posts you'll see there are some
>critical problems being addressed, including:
>
> * Network Solutions split off ARIN without halving their fee,
>
> * ARIN has created a fee structure that bears no relationship to the
>   cost of providing reverse DNS resolution and netblock registration,
>
> * The ARIN fees heavily discriminates against smaller ISPs, startups
>   and businesses that do not require a /19,
>
> * ARIN has not adequately solicited input from the Internet community
>   as was standard (RFC) procedure before Network Solutions took
>   over the Internic,
>
> * The corporate structure of ARIN, like Network Solutions, gives
>   the appearance of for-profit intent,
>
> * ARIN has not been consistent in the application of its own
>   requirements for netblock allocation,
>
> * ARIN has not made any visible effort to reclaim the numerous
>   /8 and /16 netblocks that are currently underutilized and in many
>   cases completely unused,
>
> * ARIN has not addressed the problems with netblock hoarding and
>   resale that are beginning to impact Internet based businesses and
>   Internet commerce (with companies like Whole Earth Networks charging
>   $1,000 per year for a class C, regardless of bandwidth),
>
> * ARIN controls a valuable public resource with no oversight or
>   regulation.
>
>If those are not enough reasons to justify Karl Denninger's proposal I
>don't know what might be.
>
>Roger Marquis

There is a meeting of the ARIN Advisory Council being scheduled about two
months from now.  This is a reasonable forward time span (its unreasonable
and EXPENSIVE to schedule tighter in than this, and I absolutely do NOT
want to give Kim Hubbard and other BoT members who are compensated and
reimbursed for these things an excuse to fly on ANYTHING other than 
excursion airfares in the coach cabin.)

Prior to that time I expect that the AC will have debated the points I have
raised (the two primary proposals I have put forward) and come to some kind
of consensus.  If not, then we will attempt to reach consensus during that
meeting.  It is solidly my intent that following that meeting hard, formal
recommendations will be issued to the BoT and an immediate and constructive
change will come from them.

If the BoT refuses to accept those recommendations, or if the AC fragments
to the point that nothing productive comes out of the June meeting, then I
will be soliciting members of ARIN to formally depose the board and replace
its entire complement with a representative set of people from the
community.

It is my intent as an AC member to fix the problems.  Alternatively, if I 
cannot convince the other AC members and the Board to fix the problems, it 
is my intent to force open the floodgates of competitive commerce in the
IP address business (consider the number of organizations which hold /8s,
how many of those need any significnat part of the /8 - zero, and how much
they could make leasing or selling some of that space - then tell me why
ANY public company with a fiduciary duty to stockholders wouldn't do
precisely this if the current situation continues?)  The "invisible hand"
of competition will do the rest of the job; ARIN will be unable to sustain
its present pricing and policies if even *one* /8 holder defects.

Either way, ARIN will come around.  Either because the BoT and AC do the
right thing, or because with the pressures of competitive allocation
authorities within ARIN's service area they simply will have no choice
if ARIN wants to survive at all.

I was appointed to the AC and approved by the BoT.  Some of the board
probably regrets that appointment now, but I'm there for three years 
and I intend to do my damndest to protect and advance the interests 
of the Internet's *USERS*.

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