[134630] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: arin and ops fora (was: AltDB? RPKI, the universe, and ...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jan 8 03:18:43 2011
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:17:17 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <F7E55931-29AE-4293-B74D-B4B07E83DFD7@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> one difference in north america from the other 'regions' is that there
>> is a strong and very separate operator community and forum.
> Right. However, it seems to me that this strong separation has led to
> exactly the problem you raised. The issue, as far as I can tell, is
> that there are functions and services performed by ARIN that can
> impact the operational community yet even within the existing ARIN
> structures, there is no obvious (to me at least) mechanism by which
> the operational community can voice their concerns/provide input/etc.
> on these services and functions (excluding address allocation/policy
> of course).
i will admit to some carry-over from the ietf's old high and mighty
attitude, "we're open, if you want to talk about it, come to our turf."
i am happy to say that this has been changing in recent years.
randy
