[arin-discuss] ARIN Travel

[Bill Darte]

If ARIN were to restrict its outreach through telconf meetings there would be howl about catering to only techies and those with such resources.  ARIN travels about the service area precisely so that many can attend who cannot fly off to expensive places.

Outreach is not a joke...it's hard to gain mindshare of all those who need let alone those who should know of the v4 and v6 issues.  If you have more suggestions on how to actually reach and inform more audiences, your input is welcome.

I teach at a premier university and while you're right, students know of the internet and use it, but its remarkable how little they know  of how it works...even when the subject being taught involves these protocols..and those are graduate students and technologists from prestigious companies....

Bill Darte
ARIN AC
Washington University in St. Louis


-----Original Message-----
From: arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net on behalf of G.Hiscott
Sent: Fri 11/2/2007 1:14 PM
To: arin-discuss at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] ARIN Travel
 
I agree with Dean Anderson regarding his point about ARIN travel.

It often, in my opinion, seems pointless and as much could be 
accomplished with teleconferencing or videoconferencing.

We are supposed to be an example of the new way of communicating yet 
ARIN is still motivating people to fly to far off places and spend 
resources above and beyond what is needed to confer.

The outreach is a joke, in my opinion.  They don't need to sell or 
peddle address space.  Every college kid receiving a diploma today knows 
about the net and can find out how to get address space quite easily 
through Google.

Regarding the rebuttal: It strengthens ARIN

How does it strengthen ARIN?  ARIN is a form of a monopoly.  It has a 
charge to administrate address space.  Nobody can compete.  Everybody 
who wants to participate can participate.  It is established.

What do you mean by the word "Strengthen" -  Does that mean it will help 
arin to get members converted to IPV6 faster ?  Will it reduce their 
costs in some way ?  Will it help them with a breakthrough development 
in administrating address space?  Yeah, right.



GJH


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