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Re: Lightly used IP addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Aug 13 16:35:14 2010

Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 05:35:00 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Vadim Antonov  <avg@kotovnik.com>
In-Reply-To: <8a2ulite6jhqsvisma4f4apy.1281730459934@email.android.com>
Cc: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com, "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>,
	John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> How come ARIN has any say at all if A wants to sell and B wants to
> buy? Trying to fend off the imaginary monopolistic hobgoblin?

self-justification for arin's existence, flying people around to lotso
meetings, fancy hotels, ...

at the rirs, income and control are more important than the health and
growth of the internet.  basically, the rirs are another case of seemed
like a good idea at the time.

randy



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