[164668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN WHOIS for leads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Jul 26 14:40:18 2013
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <8450E437-4F62-4AA9-BEA5-9A968A46A085@ianai.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:40:06 -0700
To: Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Patrick,
On Jul 26, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> =
wrote:
>> 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).
>=20
> Sure it is, the membership is just very .. uh .. selective. :)
>=20
> "Stakeholder" is just a fancy way of saying "member". They vote, =
things change.
You appear to be using a rather ... expansive definition of the word =
'member'.
> Like I said, this is _exactly_ what Ryan wanted. Only the "anointed" =
get to decide things. Works out well, doesn't it?
In the sense that the ones who actively participate, scream the loudest, =
lobby the most, etc., get to decide things, I suppose one could say it =
works out. However, since anyone can actively participate, scream, =
lobby, etc., I'm not sure how that can be described as "only the =
anointed get to decide things".
Regards,
-drc
