[arin-discuss] Legacy RSA

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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>[mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of Dean Anderson
>Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 12:40 AM
>Cc: arin-discuss at arin.net
>Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] Legacy RSA
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>I attended VON in Boston today, and quite unexpectedly ran into the ARIN
>booth.  I met Einar Bohlin and Jon Worley.  I have several unfavorable

>This was just a junket; part of that $400,000 or so 46% increase in the
>travel budget that I cited a couple weeks ago. Done under the euphemism
>of "outreach".  These trade shows are indeed a lot of fun. I wish I had
>an extra $400,000 to spend attending trade shows, staying in nice
>hotels, flying around. Parties are always great when you have no sales
>quotas to meet.  But these trade shows are a total, complete waste of
>ARIN resources.  A non-profit company is expected to be a steward for
>the benefit of the public interest and its defined purpose. The public
>interest is not served here, and it is hard to find anything that is
>served in the charter of ARIN.
>
>But otherwise, I enjoyed the chance to talk to Einar and Jon, especially
>after I felt I couldn't attend Albuquerque

I felt I couldn't attend the NM meeting either because it was "just a
junket"
so I observed over the Web - and after watching the 3 days of it, it merely
confirmed my initial feelings about it.  The web feed was definitely
a far better use of my time!

These trade shows are a form of advertising.  And the important thing
to keep in mind about advertising is that over 50% of your advertising
dollars are going to be wasted no matter how much advance preparation
you do.

I don't call it irresponsible for ARIN to show up at this trade show,
but I would call it irresponsible for them to show up at this show more than
once, now that they have seen that there isn't anything there for them.
I get a lot of advertising for trade shows and it's usually a bald faced
pack of lies, until you actually go there
and visit you don't really know squat about it.

TEd