[16302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Anderson)
Sat Apr 18 22:52:41 1998
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980418061514.00b85b34@norfolk.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 22:35:59 -0400
To: Dean Robb <pceasy@norfolk.infi.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Dean Anderson <dean@av8.com>
At 6:15 AM -0400 4/18/98, Dean Robb wrote:
>At 10:43 4/18/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>Dean sez:
>>All the questions can probably be answered by noting that ARIN is a
>>non-profit arm of NSI.
>>
>>this is not true
>
>http://rs.arin.net/faq.html
>
>"17. What are the roles of Network Solutions and the InterNIC?
>
>NSIís role is to sponsor ARIN, providing assistance to its establishment
>and providing initial support of ARIN until ARIN is self-funding. Once this
>is achieved, there will be no ties--financial, management or other--between
>the two organizations. ARIN will be an independent, non-profit organization
>responding to its membership. "
>
>Since it is not yet self-funding, what, exactly, part is untrue of my
>statement?
All of it. While it is still an "arm" of NSI, it is not a non-profit. At
some point it will become independent and non-profit. At which point it
will not be an arm of the NSI. At no time will it ever be a "non-profit
arm of the NSI".
--Dean
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