[139001] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernie Rubi)
Thu Mar 24 22:27:08 2011
In-Reply-To: <5B2F0730-7BFC-4BAC-952E-CFF9AB084FCB@arin.net>
From: Ernie Rubi <ernesto@cs.fiu.edu>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:26:12 -0400
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Kind of off topic response so apologies,
Perhaps ARINs counsel has counseled you against making statements - fair eno=
ugh. =20
My question doesn't go to any privileged information, just to general ARIN p=
olicy.
I'll just say, for a community driven organization, it may seem odd to be si=
lent in such important questions and take these decisions on your own. (I.e=
., decisions as to whether intervene in lawsuits, what policy arguments to m=
ake and how far to go before in said lawsuits).
On a personal note, I'm just a law student and barely 28 y/o, but I'll say i=
t again - I am astounded that people in all kinds of forums have derided me,=
chastised me and given me the silent treatment during this entire conversat=
ion. This was an academic question to me, but apparently lots of folks thin=
k it's life or death or semi-religious.
I'll be quiet now.
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:24 PM, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:
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>> At your suggestion, I went to the IGP blog and read the last comment. I s=
ee there is a response by Ernie Rubi to your blog comment, which captures my=
question so well that (with apologies to Mr Rubi) I'll quote him:
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> Mr. Rubi is likely already aware from his legal studies that it=20
> is imprudent to argue cases in public in advance of filing.
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> /John
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> John Curran
> President and CEO
> ARIN
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