[ppml] The WIANA registry

[Richard Jimmerson]

> 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. 

It is a very good suggestion to add content to the ARIN web
site that specifically targets first-time applicants.  We will
work on creating content that summarizes the ARIN policies and
orients first-time users to the ARIN procedures.  Once complete 
we will prominently display a link on our front page to attract 
first-time users of ARIN's services to the new content.

Best Regards,

Richard Jimmerson
Director of Operations
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ppml at arin.net [mailto:owner-ppml at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Michael.Dillon at radianz.com
> Sent: Friday, May 02, 2003 11:05 AM
> To: admin at wiana.org; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: Re: [ppml] The WIANA registry
> 
> 
> >> 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