[125129] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Greco)
Fri Apr 9 07:09:38 2010
From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
To: wavetossed@googlemail.com (Michael Dillon)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 06:09:19 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <z2w877585b01004081432m6c5fc38lb782b7a3a9034c72@mail.gmail.com>
from "Michael Dillon" at Apr 08, 2010 10:32:37 PM
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > 1) Justify why we need a heavy bureaucracy such as ARIN for IPv6
> > numbering resources,
>
> Because the members of ARIN (and the other four RIRs) want it that way.
> And because nobody has yet made a serious proposal to ICANN that
> would replace ARIN.
Using the organization to justify the need for the organization is
circular reasoning.
> > 2) Tell me why something like the old pre-depletion pre-ARIN model
> > of InterNIC and just handing out prefixes with substantially less
> > paper-pushing wouldn't result in a cheaper-to-run RIR.
>
> Because the ARIN members, who pay most of ARIN's fees, are not
> complaining about the level of those fees. This means that they
> think the fees are cheap enough, or else they would demand that
> the fees be changed. All ARIN fees are set by the ARIN members.
Again, ...
Anyways, the non-answers to these questions are very illuminating.
... JG
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