[ppml] Restrictions on transferor deaggregation in 2008-2: IPv4Transfer Policy Proposal

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net] On 
> Behalf Of Bill Darte
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2008 11:43 AM
> To: Scott Leibrand; Jim Weyand
> Cc: arin ppml
> Subject: Re: [ppml] Restrictions on transferor deaggregation 
> in 2008-2: IPv4Transfer Policy Proposal
> 
> 
> The risk of being too expressive in giving guidance on how 
> they may do these the task runs the risk of missing something 
> necessary or bleeding over into operations...whereas being to 
> general runs the risk of lack of transparency and perceived fairness.
>

The goal should not be
to try to strike a balance between specific policy and giving ARIN staff
their heads.  The goal of policy should be to immunize ARIN as much as
possible from a
successful legal challenge that would destroy ARIN and replace it with some
government-run organization that will use the legal system to remake the
Internet to it's own ends.  That will likely produce policy in some areas
that is rather restrictive in what the ARIN staff can do.

The recent unpleasantness with Pakistan blocking Youtube over a religious
video that the Pakistan government didn't like should have well illustrated
the dangers of allowing the world's governments more of a hand in running
the Internet.

Ted