[ppml] RIPE and APNIC make in-addrs avail with no fuss.

[John M. Brown]

common sense seems to be where to draw the line.

making the inaddr data avail seems like common sense.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Alec H. Peterson
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 3:39 PM
> To: ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] RIPE and APNIC make in-addrs avail with no fuss.
> 
> 
> --On Wednesday, June 11, 2003 15:29 -0600 "John M. Brown" 
> <john at chagres.net> wrote:
> 
> >
> > Maybe ARIN should be less red-tape policy
> >  and more community in some areas.
> 
> A little history here.
> 
> Who here remembers the days before ARIN started?  The major 
> complaints 
> about the InterNIC registry were related to the fact that 
> there was very 
> little if any way for public input into policy and 
> procedures.  When ARIN 
> was started the idea was to fix that (along with cutting the 
> cord with NSI, 
> but that's another issue).
> 
> Perhaps ARIN has gone too far the other way, requiring too 
> much stuff to go 
> through the policy process.  But where should ARIN draw the line?
> 
> Alec
> 
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