[arin-discuss] ARIN Travel

[David Williamson]

Since you seem deeply dissatisfied, do you mind if I ask if you (or
your organization's designated member representative) vote in the
recent election?  I'll note that the winners in the BoT and AC
elections needed a mere 50-ish votes.  That implies that very few total
votes were cast.

If you didn't vote, you missed your chance to affect actual change.

-David


On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 03:52:14PM -0700, G.Hiscott wrote:
> Edward Lewis wrote:
> > At 11:14 -0700 11/2/07, G.Hiscott wrote:
> > 
> 
> > 
> > ARIN is not to dominate the discussion.  ARIN is not the source of 
> > influence.    If ARIN is unduly influenced by one corner of the 
> > audience, it will fail its mission.  Ultimately it would wither and 
> > fade.  If ARIN is unbalanced, shows bias, it is malfunctioning.  If the 
> > situation is noticed and remains unfixed, ARIN should be dissolved.
> > 
> > The power of ARIN is not from it's position of dominance but via the 
> > open, transparent, bottom-up process that those of us who have been 
> > participating are fostering.  This is why I believe that the most 
> > important part of the face-to-face meeting agendas are the open mics. 
> > Any can have a say and the words are recorded into archived material. It 
> > is not a monopoly.
> 
> 
> Monopoly is not the right word.  It is a single source for IP address 
> space in North America.  If an entity needs to have a dedicated block of 
> IP address space, said entity is forced to work with ARIN to obtain the 
> address space.
> 
> The fact is: Large communications companies can easily afford to pay the 
> costs to maintain representation while the smaller companies struggle to 
> keep a voice "at the open mic.".  This fact should be considered when 
> ARIN thinks about how to grow.
> 
> The way they are doing it now is not appreciated by me or my 
> organization and I think I can speak for the other small operations out 
> there.
> 
> 
> GJH
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