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

[william(at)elan.net]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Sweeting, John wrote:

> and the point?

That emergence of these RIRs was original goal and not just something 
that happened in "last few years".

BTW - In general I completely agree that ITU taking over IPv6 and 
assigning blocks on per-country basis is stupid idea and that instead
governments should look about making their concerns heard through RIR 
structure or make their case for new RIR if they think their IPv6
requirements are so unique to their country.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: william(at)elan.net [mailto:william at elan.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2004 2:42 PM
> To: Sweeting, John
> Cc: 'Lee Howard'; Gregory Massel; ppml at arin.net
> Subject: RE: [ppml] RE: [arin-announce] NRO Response to ITU Comments on
> th e Management of Internet Protocol (IP) Addresses
> 
> 
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Sweeting, John wrote:
> 
> > just wanted to say that I agree with Lee's observations below....that
> being
> > that ARIN should look at their outreach programs to see where and if they
> > can be more effective. I would like to point out that ARIN (and all
> existing
> > RIR's) must be doing something right since LACNIC and soon to be AFRINIC
> > have emerged in the last few years just for the purpose of serving their
> > regions (governments?) better.
> 
> If I understnand the 5 RIR for all major continents (or rather parts of 
> the world as Asia & Europe are same continent) had been the goals from
> almost the start of the process moving from single Internic to 
> multiple RIRs.
> 
> And LACNIC had been in process of being setup from 1997 or 1998 and so is 
> AfriNIC. The dates for setup corresponds more to when the region's internet
> become more developed and when there were enough ISPs there to form 
> organization that could become self-sufficient in couple years (if I 
> undersand for both LACNIC and for AfriNIC first two years they are being 
> financially supported by outside organizations and not strictly by members)
> 
> 

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William Leibzon
Elan Networks
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