[144657] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Disappointing ARIN - A great advertisement for the USA ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Sep 16 12:13:03 2011
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:11:24 +0200
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CALFTrnPxSWMMvtZeQ+vG5VwSdZqR2H1sA9ZLB5tGzKKjpaz88Q@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Always Learning <nanog@u61.u22.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Saying NANOG = ARIN is like saying Middle East = Terrorist. That kind
> of generalization is never useful. ARIN is one of many non-Government
> organizations that make decisions regarding the Internet.
>
> As for your reference to "Obama-style" I'm not sure if you're trying
> to pay homage to, or insult the POTUS, either way it's not piratically
> constructive to the conversation; especially on a technical mailing
> list. Please check politics at the door.
qed, eh?
yes, the op conflated a bunch of crap with the valid technical problem
s/he raised. but can the rest of us please try to stick to technalia?
> As mentioned by several others, if you have a problem with changes
> made by ARIN, an independent non-profit corporation, then it seems
> logical to contact them and not a community of network operators who
> have little or no control over ARIN.
arin says they serve the community. this change affects the community,
they broke my fingers and a few scripts. for others, such as suresh,
they broke a *lot* of software.
and discussing it here seems to be having useful effect, thanks john.
randy
