[ppml] New ARIN Sub-region Policy Proposal (Rural-America)

[Bill Van Emburg]

J Bacher wrote:

> At 05:00 PM 10/7/2003 +0100, you wrote:
> 
>> >The ARIN sub-region known as "Rural America", those
>> >localities with a population of less than 1 million
>> >persons here by proposes the following Policy Proposal.
>>
>> This is an example of a poorly thought out
>> policy proposal. It doesn't conform to the
> 
> This is an example of determining how many people will accept a 
> double-standard when there ought not be.
> 
> John's analogy is excellent.

Absolutely not!  As someone else on this list mentioned, we're talking 
about a different policy for a different CONTINENT, and one which is 
made up of mostly "3rd-world" countries.  Rural America is much more 
similar to the rest of the U.S., and does not, in any case, represent a 
easily separable geography.

...and don't try to say that 2003-15 doesn't represent a continent.  It 
represents the portion of that different continent that ARIN currently 
has control over.  (...and only has that control for historical reasons, 
a problem that AfriNIC is trying to fix!)

2003-15 and this "Rural America" proposal are very different things, and 
there is no reason to consider them the same.
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				     -- Bill Van Emburg
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