What is the status of ARIN?

At 09:30 PM 6/12/97 +0900, David R Conrad wrote:
>>"What is the status of ARIN?
>>
>>ARIN is on hold. The US Government has decided to look
>>into the issue of how to issue IP address. The FNC and the
>>Interim Inter-Agency Task Force has meeting with the ARIN
>>board. They want ARIN to solve the portability issue. 
>
>And while they're add it, can they speed up light a bit -- this
>C value is really annoying.
>
>>ARIN said that it can't solve that. 
>
>Anybody got email addresses for the FNC, Kahin, and the Inter-Agency Task
>Force?
>
>I'd like to have a few "words" with them.

Words have no effect on bureaucrats. Bureaucrats deal with favors,
behind-closed-door deals, and political backstabbing.

Congress isn't much better, but at least they're accountable at election
time. Bureaucrats are accountable to no-one.

The bureaucrats are showing their ignorance by demanding that ARIN "Solve
the portability problem".

This issue is just as important as the Communications Decency Act. In both
cases, the government is attempting to wrest control of private property
(the Internet) away from its owners. They're losing control over the
telephone companies, and they're looking to the Internet to regain lost
power. 

It doesn't help that there are some ISPs who likely stand to benefit with
ill-gotten gains, due to "alliances" or friendships with government
lackeys. These ISPs are of course lobbying the government, encouraging them
to take over - in the hopes that they'll be handed some special privileges.

Who do you want allocating IP addresses? Bureaucrats whose sole purpose is
to maintain power over your business - or a group of engineers who live
Internet issues and who are dedicated not to power, but to the continued
growth of the Internet?

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