[ppml] RE: [arin-announce] NRO Response to ITU Comments on the Management of Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses

[Ray Plzak]

Bill,

I think one of the most effective ways for people to voice their concerns is
to contact the ITU sector members within the ARIN region, referencing the
ITU memorandum and the NRO response.  There are approximately 20 ARIN member
organizations in a variety of countries listed as sector members and there
are a number of non-ARIN member related equipment and service organizations.
These members can be found by using the URL below.  Open the Member States
list and then click on the appropriate country to review the individual
memberships.  For many organizations a personal contact and e-mail are
provided.  A concerned person who is also an employee of one of these ITU
member organizations could contact the executive of their respective
organization who is involved with their ITU membership regarding this
matter.  Their ITU member representative may not be aware of this recent
activity.  The ITU member list is available at:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/membership/index.html

The ITU memorandum is available at:

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-wsis/files/zhao-netgov01.doc

The full text of the NRO response is available at:

http://www.nro.net/documents/nro17.html

In addition, everyone should please consider the ARIN public policy mailing
list (ppml at arin.net) as a venue for discussion about this matter.  All
comments are welcomed and encouraged. Mailing list subscription information
is available at:

http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/index.html

ARIN encourages members of the Internet community to make their views about
this issue known.  The bottom-up, consensus based model on which the success
of the Internet has been founded may be at risk of being replaced by a
top-down system of "Internet Governance."  Your visible and explicit support
of the bottom-up, consensus based model is needed.

Ray

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Darte [mailto:billd at cait.wustl.edu]
> Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 11:17 AM
> To: Ray Plzak (plzak at arin.net); ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [arin-announce] NRO Response to ITU Comments on the
> Management of Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
> 
> Ray,
> 
> Thank you for informing the community of these documents.
> 
> I think it is easy to overlook your encouragement to communicate
> individual
> views to the ITU in the email.  I think it is really important that a wide
> variety of stakeholders do so.
> 
> I would be interested to know what form of contact you think would be most
> useful... i.e. email or snailmail...and to which element listed on the
> contacts link you reference would be most useful as a destination.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Bill Darte
> CAIT at Washington University in St. Louis
> ARIN AC
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-arin-announce at arin.net
> > [mailto:owner-arin-announce at arin.net] On Behalf Of Member Services
> > Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 8:51 AM
> > To: arin-announce at arin.net
> > Subject: [arin-announce] NRO Response to ITU Comments on the
> > Management of Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
> >
> >
> > The Number Resource Organization (NRO) has just published a
> > public response to an October 21, 2004 memorandum from the
> > Director of ITU Telecommunications Standardization Bureau
> > (ITU TSB) entitled "ITU and Internet Governance."
> >
> > The full ITU memorandum is available at:
> >
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/tsb-director/itut-wsis/files/zhao-netgov01.doc
> 
> The full text of the NRO response is available at:
> 
> http://www.nro.net/documents/nro17.html
> 
> A summary of the response is available at:
> 
> http://www.nro.net/documents/nro18.html
> 
> ARIN encourages members of the Internet community to read both documents
> and
> to make their views about this issue known to the ITU. The ITU's contact
> information is available at:
> 
> http://www.itu.int/home/contact/index.html
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Raymond A. Plzak
> President & CEO
> American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN)