[139778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv4 address exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Tue Apr 19 17:15:53 2011
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikkWax_7-fkrqeX_GFsiTJb09zuOg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:16:21 -0500
To: Jeff Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 19, 2011, at 3:46 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Benson Schliesser
> <bensons@queuefull.net> wrote:
>> Meanwhile, under the current system, ARIN has managed to accumulate a =
>$25M cash reserve despite an increasing budget. (see =
https://www.arin.net/participate/meetings/reports/ARIN_XXVII/PDF/Wednesday=
/andersen_treasurer.pdf)
> ...
> Is your problem that ARIN spends its money poorly? I believe it does
> in some ways, but the community generally does not care enough to try
> to improve this. I questioned ARIN's travel budget a few years ago
> and was essentially flamed for doing so.
I might agree that ARIN wastes money, but that wasn't my point. The =
context of my comment was your original message, which argued that a =
competitive registry system would enable vendors to "over-charge". =
Without defining what an optimal cost might be, my comment was intended =
to show that our current baseline already results in a surplus. And I =
agree with DRC's comment that competition might improve / optimize =
costs, rather than inflate them.
Cheers,
-Benson
