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Re: Lightly used IP addresses

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Loch)
Fri Aug 13 18:36:43 2010

Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:36:36 -0400
From: Kevin Loch <kloch@kl.net>
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <m239uiqlqf.wl%randy@psg.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Randy Bush wrote:
>> (and to answer Randy - the only control over the administration is based 
>> on the policies adopted.  Reduce the corpus of applicable policy if that
>> is your desire.)
> 
> we created careers for junior policiy weenies.  arin and other rirs have
> become well-funded playgrounds for the semi-clued who think they can and
> should tell others how to run their businesses, operate the internet, ..

Yet most of the bad ideas in the past 15 years have actually come from
the IETF (TLA's, no end site multihoming, RA religion), some of which
have actually been "fixed" by the RIR's.

The RIR's provide uniqueness and have done a good job at that.  Who 
cares how they make the sausage?

- Kevin


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