[ppml] ARIN member in good standing?

[Peter Sherbin]

>Many people believe that the recipient of numbering resources also
> acquires some obligations along with them

Many people believing something do not necessarily make that thing to be true. As a
user of a postal address I feel no obligations to the Postal Service. Contrary to
that I expect the postal service to deliver my prepaid message in a timely and
secure fashion.

The Internet is an electronic version of a global postal service. As such it should
move to a proper financial model where each delivery is paid for according to its
volume and destination.

Here is a proposed model:
PI addresses
RIR invoices every entity with telecommunications licence in the region a per
sibscriber fee to cover admin expenses
Regional issuer of telecom licenses determines the fee amount as well as makes such
fee a condition of the license (don't mean to regulate the Internet but please share
your comments)

Thanks,

Peter Sherbin


--- Michael.Dillon at btradianz.com wrote:

> > What happens when ARIN can no longer contact them or if they have 
> decided 
> > to cut contact with ARIN?
> 
> Now you are asking a more general question unrelated
> to 2006-2. If ARIN issues AS numbers or IP addresses
> to an organization and that organization ceases to
> pay ARIN subscription fees then that organization is
> failing to fulfil its social contract with the ARIN
> community. Many organizations which are run by members
> have the concept of "member in good standing" and when
> a member ceases to be in good standing, either by failing
> to pay fees or for some other reason, the organization
> removes membership benefits and eventual unilateraly
> discharges the member.
> 
> Does the ARIN RSA make this social contract into
> a legal contract? If not, then should it?
> 
> Quite frankly, I don't have the answers but I think
> that before we can deal with the issue of organizations
> losing contact, we need to be clear on what is the
> social contract between individual numbering resource
> users and the community of numbering resource users. 
> I think ARIN fairly represents the community and therefore
> if any social contract is cast into a legal contract,
> ARIN should be the legal representative of the community.
> But I don't believe that we have openly discussed this
> issue in terms of a social contract before. Many people
> believe that the recipient of numbering resources also
> acquires some obligations along with them, but we have
> not expressed this in a general and comprehensive way
> before.
> 
> Today, the unspoken social contract is enforced in secret
> largely because organizations know that they will likely
> have to return to ARIN for numbering resources multiple 
> times. After the migration to IPv6, most organizations
> will not need additional numbering resources from ARIN and
> unless the unspoken social contract becomes embodied in
> legal contracts and written ARIN policies, there will be
> no incentive to meet the obligations of the contract.
> 
> --Michael Dillon
> 
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