[134797] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: arin and ops fora (was Re: AltDB?)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Tue Jan 11 02:07:40 2011
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <002d01cbb01b$eaa07160$bfe15420$@org>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:57:32 -0800
To: Lee Howard <lee@asgard.org>
Cc: 'NANOG Operators' Group' <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Lee,
On Jan 9, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Lee Howard wrote:
> Are you saying ARIN needs an ombudsman function to make sure the Board =
doesn't delay implementation of things the community wants while it =
figures out whether doing such things will prevent it from doing other =
things the community wants?
No (or at least I don't think so -- I have difficulty parsing that =
sentence). I'm suggesting that the informal input mechanisms =
historically and currently used by ARIN to determine what should be done =
(and to some extent how) may be insufficient, inefficient, and/or imply =
certain risks given that many of the services provided by ARIN are done =
on a monopoly basis and failure of those service could have global =
effect.
Or not. It may be that network operators (not just the ones that show =
up at ARIN meetings and are on PPML) are happy with the existing =
communication channels and that additional structures to encourage =
participation and input in the ARIN region regarding services ARIN =
provides to the public are unnecessary.=20
> I don't understand how this bee-watcher-watcher thing works.
Sorry, which?
Regards,
-drc
