[134653] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: arin and ops fora (was Re: AltDB?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Sat Jan 8 16:36:06 2011
Date: Sun, 09 Jan 2011 06:35:19 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <55EF24AC-DFFC-4A84-B828-693F0A1864A9@virtualized.org>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I suspect part of the issue is that ARIN is a monopoly provider of a
> variety public services that folks unrelated (directly) to ARIN must
> make use of. In other areas of public service provision, there are
> things like public utilities commissions that (in theory) ensure the
> monopoly service provider acts in the public benefit when services are
> added/changed/deleted. My impression is that the various WGs and SIGs
> in the other RIRs perform something similar to that function. There
> doesn't appear to be anything similar in the ARIN region.
having worked closely with a number of other RIRs, sad to say that a lot
still goes on under the table [0]. hence my cspan analogy, shed some
light in the corners. the community should be transparent before
wikileaks gets to us. :)
randy
--
[0] - an old sardonic comment of mine on ripe is that it is a bottom up
organization, and daniel and rob are at the bottom. and wear
thick rubber/leather gloves when entering apnic.
