[ppml] Counsel statement on Legacy assignments?

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> if arin does not want to carry out its commitment to the 
> community and to the USG when it was chartered [0], i am sure 
> the community can find an organization more interested in 
> public service.  probably such a change would be good for the 
> community; at least this puff and bluff would cease.

> [0]  http://rip.psg.com/~randy/970414.fncac.pdf   foil 9

"Randy made a commitment" is not the same as "ARIN made a commitment".

This is what the ninth slide says:
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ARIN - more Defensible than
Status Quo
* No cross-subsidy from sale of names
* Non-profit, RIPE has even reduced rates
* Stakeholders have a say
* No plan to change policy
* Current and old allocations and their DNS
will be maintained with no policy changes
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Note the part where it says "Stakeholders have a say". That is the bit
that led to PPML and the structure wherein the public has the ability to
*CHANGE* ARIN policies. In any case, ARIN's commitment to the USG when
it was chartered is embedded in its Articles of Incorporation
http://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/artic_incorp.html.

Hopefully your huff and bluff about this phantom pronise will cease.

--Michael Dillon