[arin-discuss] ARIN is not like Palo Alto! -Or- What I saw by attending ARIN XXII last week in LA.

[Bill Darte]

Very nice!  I thank you for personally getting involved and spreading
the word...
John Curran runs a grand meeting, indeed.

Bill Darte
ARIN AC 

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> [mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Bob Evans
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 1:28 PM
> To: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: [arin-discuss] ARIN is not like Palo Alto! -Or- What 
> I saw by attending ARIN XXII last week in LA.
> 
> 
> As many of you may know, I stayed for the ARIN meeting after 
> NANOG. I did this to see what really takes place behind the 
> online PPML discussions.  I am happy to say that I saw the 
> process. And that it is a pretty good !
> 
> It wasn't like a city hall meeting in Palo Alto. In Palo 
> Alto, one side of a discussion fills the room with attendance 
> and hogs all the time, while pompous council members sit and 
> cater to those there. In Palo Alto, common sense is overruled 
> by organized floor time hogging mob tactics. This is usually 
> followed up by council members meeting privately with the mob 
> organizers. Now that you walked in my shoes for a brief 
> moment, you can see why I would approach the ARIN meeting 
> with a great deal of skepticism.
> 
> Last week at ARIN XXII, I witnessed the proper type of 
> Robert's Rules of Order implemented. The one that gives the 
> "sides" equal floor time.
> Something Palo Alto lost long ago.
> 
> At ARIN there are enough people involved to make sure the 
> interests of businesses like ours are never shoved aside. 
> Trustees and Advisors take things very seriously. A strong 
> level of fairness exists inside ARIN and it overrules the 
> dollar!  Ideas are well discussed, modified and discussed 
> again and again then documented. In hopes of leaving little 
> chance for interpretation, in the event an idea reaches the 
> point of becoming a policy. Once a policy is in place it then 
> becomes a 'matter of fact'
> process.
> 
> The best way to make sure this spirit continues at ARIN is to 
> participate.
> In this way we continue to have "individuals with good hearts 
> and minds filling the seats". Individuals that never forget  
> ARIN is for everyone.
> 
> Let's keep ARIN for Everyone.
> Contact your peers and suggest they vote.
> bob evans
> (Your peers may not get ARIN mail lists...maybe you can copy 
> this and email it to them. If tehy live in Palo Ato they will 
> understand the need to participate.)
> 
> bob evans
> www.FiberInternetCenter.com
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