Global council of registries???

Jim Fleming wrote:
> 
> On Monday, April 28, 1997 10:57 AM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael at MEMRA.COM] wrote:
> @ On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Rudolph J. Geist wrote:
> @
> @ > It is highly suspicious to maintain that technical information (or any
> @ > information for that matter) regarding the allocation of IP address
> @ > blocks, a finite public resource (like telephone numbers or radio
> @ > spectrum), should be held proprietary by a monopoly outgrowth (ARIN) of
> @ > another monolpoly (Internic).
> @
> @ First, ARIN is not a monopoly, it is a non-profit organization that will
> @ be run by its members and eventually funded by its members.
> @
> @ Second, did you consult with the members of the USIPA before making such a
> @ shocking statement? For instance, would Erol's be willing to publicly
> @ disclose all the details of its network connections including all of its
> @ downstream customer networks? Have you asked those downstream customers
> @ how they would feel if their network information was publicly available
> @ to their competitors.
> @
> 
> What about the flip-side....?????
> 
> Is everyone supposed to give this information to
> ARIN and then find out that someone from Erols
> or another "East Coast" ISP or the ISP/C is off
> discussing this information on the ISP mailing lists ?
> 
> Yeah...that is what people want...
> line up here....take your ARIN pill....and watch
> your information be broadcast at the next sushi party...
> 
> @ > This type of statement is exactly why so many in the Internet industry
> @ > are so concerned about the ARIN proposal, and the exisiting IP
> @ > allocation "guidelines," which frankly are about as consistent and
> @ > unambiguous when applied to any company or entity that applies other
> @ > than one of the "big twenty" as summer thunder storms in Miami.
> @
> @ This kind of statement does nothing to advance the interests of ISP's
> @ whether they are members of your organization or not.
> @
> @ Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
> @ Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-250-546-3049
> @ http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael at memra.com
> @
> 
> Your statements and your continual lobbying
> of selected ISPs and InterNIC insiders does
> nothing to advance the Internet.
> 
> --
> Jim Fleming
> Unir Corporation
> http://www.Unir.Corp
> 
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Cook:

Being new to this listserv, I now clearly see what you mean about 
Fleming.