ARIN Releases New Website

[Trevor Paquette]

When you pay into a mutual fund do you get the right to tell the mutual fund mangers how to run that fund or what funs they should
pick? No.

Your taxes go to pay doctors and nurses in hospitals.. do you get the right to tell them how to operate, perform an MRI, what
needles to use to give drugs? No.

If you work for a company that has an shareholders, do those shareholders get a direct say in the type of editor you should use to
do your job? No.

The point here is that as members we do have the right to set general direction and policy for ARIN; we have entrusted ARIN to enact
those policies in the manner that they see fit. We should not care about how they get there; just that they do get there; within the
budgets that they have set out. As long at they are within those budgets, we should be happy with their performance and the results.
ARIN has hired the folks whom they believe are best suited to get the job done; we as members should trust those decisions.

If you truly feel that members should have a direct say in the tools and methods that ARIN should be using, then bring it up at the
next ARIN general meeting as a point of policy; I'll bet lunch that you will be in the vast minority.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jlewis at lewis.org [mailto:jlewis at lewis.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2002 8:44 PM
> To: Trevor Paquette
> Cc: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: ARIN Releases New Website
>
>
> On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Trevor Paquette wrote:
>
> > The tools that ARIN uses to produce this site are of their concern;
> > not ours. They don't tell use what routers/swithes to use to do our
> > jobs; why should we tell them how to do theirs. As members we should
>
> As dues paying members, I think it is our business how ARIN runs their
> shop.
>
> Try telling ARIN in your next IP request that you need gobs
> of IP space
> because you just bought a whole bunch of surplus routers that don't
> understand classless routing...i.e. you can't subnet.  I bet you lunch
> that wouldn't fly.
>
> > I for one like the new format and the new logo. Keep up the
> good work folks.
>
> I was going to say I can't even see a bunch of the front
> page, but I see
> they did massage their HTML such that Opera on Linux can now render it
> properly.
>
> > Comments: Would be great for the site to auto-detect the
> browser type
> > and then switch to a graphicsal/non-graphical view
> depending on lynx,
> > Netscape, IE etc..
>
> I still say it would be best to not waste time/money on a
> flashy new site.
> The site looks great...but at what cost?
>
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