[arin-ppml] Future pressures on the ARIN policy process (Was: Use of "reserved" address space)

[Keith W. Hare]

Bill,

I have no idea how an exception can prove a rule, or why you think my company might be an exception.

We've had a /24 since 1991 and so are a legacy resource holder. We mostly ignored ARIN (because ARIN mostly ignored us) until about three years ago when there was some sort of outreach. At that point, I started monitoring the ARIN mailing lists and decided it made sense for us to support ARIN.

Compared to our costs for software and hardware maintenance, $500 for the ARIN membership is noise.

The bigger cost is the time to monitor and understand a percentage of the traffic on the ARIN lists.

So how many end users pay for ARIN membership? I have no idea, but I expect that they do so because they think it is the correct thing to do.

In any case, any organization has a larger influence by expressing a coherent opinion on the public policy discussion mailing list than by voting for the various candidates for ARIN offices.

Keith

-----Original Message-----
From: wherrin at gmail.com [mailto:wherrin at gmail.com] On Behalf Of William Herrin
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:34 PM
To: Keith W. Hare
Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Future pressures on the ARIN policy process (Was: Use of "reserved" address space)

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Keith W. Hare <Keith at jcc.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 30, 2010 12:33 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>It's $500/year extra as an end-user to vote. That's steep enough that
>>end user orgs by and large won't participate unless their vote has
>>been bought. ...
>
> Meadow dressing.
> As an end user organization that has been paying
> $500/year extra, I'm offended by this assertion.

Good for you! You're the exception that proves the rule.

-Bill


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