[134633] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AltDB?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sat Jan 8 04:12:23 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <70374.1294475040@nsa.vix.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 23:11:32 -1000
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Paul,
On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
> the price of changing what ARIN does is, at a minimum: participation.
Another view is that ARIN's whole and sole reason for being is to =
provide services to the network operators in the ARIN region. As such, =
it would be ill-advised for ARIN to change those services without =
consulting the community that ARIN serves and getting their buy-in. =
Hopefully, there's a middle ground.
> i hear in what you're saying
> a desire to have a way to impact ARIN's behaviour outside of NRPM =
edits
> and perhaps ARIN does need to address this with some new online forum =
for
> things which aren't allocation policy but which should still be =
decided
> using community input.
Yep. Not sure it should be an ARIN-operated thing (nor am I sure that =
it shouldn't be), but something a bit more focused on the operation of =
services ARIN provides than ppml might be helpful.
Regards,
-drc
