[92266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Kremen's Buddy?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vest)
Tue Sep 12 21:54:08 2006
In-Reply-To: <8FA13152-19F0-48DF-8E92-ADEBA538F86F@ca.afilias.info>
Cc: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>,
Daniel Golding <dgolding@tier1research.com>,
"'Adi Linden'" <adil@adis.on.ca>, nanog@nanog.org
From: Tom Vest <tvest@pch.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 21:52:27 -0400
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sep 12, 2006, at 8:46 PM, Joe Abley wrote:
>> In any kind of free market system, competition would have
>> bitchslapped the
>> current ARIN way of doing things a long, long time ago.
>
> I'm not an economist, and this is not a policy list, so I have
> nothing to say about that here.
Wrong, on all three counts ;-)
You make a living, at least sometimes, making networks do more or
better for the same or less. That makes you a practicing/applied
economist at least (sorry).
Competition in this case could only lead to a race to the bottom, as
the RIR processes that (attempt to) guarantee a tight fit between
address allocation and actual production requirements give way to
highest-bidder / lowest-requirements wins. Such a shift might serve
the interests of those whose pockets are deeper than their interest
in the long-term viability of the Internet, but only at the expense
of the rest of the operator community, and their customers, present
and future.
TV
