[136948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sun Feb 6 20:26:22 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 01:25:10 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m262swu0oh.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 6, 2011, at 7:51 PM, Randy Bush wrote:
> it is both amusing and horrifying to watch two old dogs argue about
> details of written rules as if common sense had died in october 1998.
> what is good for the internet? what is simple? what is pragmatic? if
> the answer is not simple and obvious, we should go break something else.
Actually, I'm in full agreement with you: the goal needs to be to keep
the Internet running. Alas, I've run a few networks, but that's a few
years back, and I'll be the first to admit that my particular graybeard=20
views on what is best for the Internet lacks current operational insights. =
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Also note that, as CEO of ARIN, it is not my role to preempt discussion by=
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proposing solutions, but instead to encourage good discussion of the issues=
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So, what exactly is broken and needs to be changed? I do know that we can'=
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have the basic premises of the system completely set on a regional basis, b=
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we also have to allow for regional differences in policy since operators fa=
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different challenges. While the discussion is ongoing, we're keeping to=20
the principles of aggregation, conservation, and registration, and looking=
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forward to any consensus that emerges from the operator community to change
these principles.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN=
