[128670] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Aug 13 23:32:13 2010
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:32:06 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <E4E95757-02EF-412E-AB3B-5027EFBCFB15@arin.net>
Cc: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> If the allocation and reassignment of address space has no policy
> associated with it, then there's no doubt that most of the registry
> functions can be automated, and there's no need for the associated
> policy development process, public policy meetings, travel, conference
> calls. Quite a bit of savings available there, but the community
> first has to decide on permanent policy (or lack thereof :-) for that
> automated world before we can reap the savings.
when the 'community' is defined as those policy wannabes who do the
flying, take the cruise junkets, ... this is a self-perpetuating
steaming load that is not gonna change.
one start would be for arin to have the guts not to pay travel expenses
of non-employees/contractors.
randy
