[ppml] The WIANA registry

[Michael.Dillon at radianz.com]

>> Does any RIR have a simple and clear set of instructions for first-time 

>> applicants to follow that includes an appeal procedure? NO! And that is 

>> the crux of the problem with organizations that are not mainstream 
ISPs.

>http://www.arin.net ?  Click on one of the "Registration" links and
>read the directions get ASNs, IP addresses, pizza, etc.

I said "simple and clear set of instructions for first-time applicants". 
The stuff on the ARIN website is not simple and clear for a first-time 
applicant to understand. The word "appeal" does not appear on either the 
IPv4 Guidlines page or the IPv4 Policies page.

Your response reminds me of an incident shortly before the French 
revolution. The people were demonstrating in the streets and the queen 
asked why they were complaining. A servant explained that the people 
didn't have any bread to eat. "Well then, let them eat cake!", said the 
queen. Not long after that, the queen's head was chopped off putting an 
end to the arrogant statements of a privileged insider. In the months that 
followed, most of arrogant insiders, i.e. the nobility, were also 
executed.

I'm suggesting that those of us who are privileged to be ARIN insiders 
should come down off of our pedestals and realize that the old order is 
being swept away. We need to change. We need to explain what we do, why we 
do it, and how we do it. It does no one any good to complain that 
outsiders are not following our rules when many of us barely understand 
what the rules are.

--Michael Dillon