[30889] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN Policy on IP-based Web Hosting
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Fri Sep 1 03:35:02 2000
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:27:28 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008311545580.93064-100000@localhost>; from patrick@cybernothing.org on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 03:57:33PM -0700
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On Thu, Aug 31, 2000, Patrick Greenwell wrote:
> >
> > That's why I asked about some form of proxy for members who can't be
> > present.
>
> Given the effects of the decisions that ARIN is making that would seem to
> be a very prudent idea.
>
> It should be noted however, that no matter how "democratic" any
> organization is or claims to be, the decisions they make do not
> supercede the laws of the country(ies) that they operate in. At the point
> that someone feels their rights under the law are being violated
> sufficiently (such as restraint of trade) and has the necessary resources,
> I imagine these sorts of things will simply end up in court.
.. and if this kind of thing happens because a company can't get what they
want out of a body like ARIN, we are all pretty much doomed.
You know, you would *think* that this kind of change, regardless of whether
its "right" or "wrong" would tickle *some* people into creating new
soutions based upon changing constraints. This *IS* what we are paid for,
right?
Adrian
--
Adrian Chadd "If a butterfly flaps its wings in China,
<adrian@creative.net.au> will a women get naked in Amsterdam?"
-- Ashley Penney on Chaos Theory
