[164650] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Fri Jul 26 11:40:47 2013
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <55F15309-CA40-46A2-9D14-66757DEBC903@virtualized.org>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:40:12 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jul 26, 2013, at 11:05 , David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2013, at 7:58 AM, "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net> =
wrote:
>> You can change anything you want. ARIN & ICANN are both member =
organizations. Propose a change, get the votes, and POOF!, things are =
changed.
>=20
> Err. ICANN isn't a membership organization. It is possible to change =
things at ICANN, but the mechanisms are ... different and much slower =
(since it involves getting consensus in a multi-stakeholder =
environment).
Sure it is, the membership is just very .. uh .. selective. :)
"Stakeholder" is just a fancy way of saying "member". They vote, things =
change.
Like I said, this is _exactly_ what Ryan wanted. Only the "anointed" get =
to decide things. Works out well, doesn't it?
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
