[5871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Should NSF declare victory and leave?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Daniel Karrenberg)
Tue Oct 29 05:07:32 1996
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 27 Oct 1996 07:51:15 PST.
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From: Daniel Karrenberg <Daniel.Karrenberg@ripe.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 10:48:22 +0100
> Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com> writes:
> I think this would be a bad thing. NS needs a watchdog.
I fully agree with the latter and not necessarily with the former.
At least for the Internet *number* registration part there are two
working examples where both the watching and funding is done by the
region's ISPs in a very open and cooperative manner: APNIC and the RIPE
NCC. This works well because the ISPs realise that they have to
organise this together, whether they like cooperating or not.
I do not see any reason why such a model could not work for the InterNIC
or at least the number registration part of it. To me it just seems
like a question of the providers realising that they have to organise
some things together and getting their act together. I am quite sure
that NSF would happily let go and I expect that NSI would be willing to
talk as there are benefits in such a scheme for them too.
But then I am a naive European and not so closely involved with N.A.
politics. If however someone wants to make this work I will happily
help them by explaining our experiences.
Daniel
