[arin-ppml] Fw: Accusation of fundamental, conflictofinterest/IPaddresspolicypitched directly to ICANN

[Mike Burns]

Hi Eric, answers inline


> taking a few comments spread over a myrid of notes ...
>
>> My interest is in having a market for the buying and selling of IP 
>> addresses free from government and psuedo-government ...
>
> a [IDEOLOGICAL] tag on the subject line would be appropriate.

I suppose I am guilty of having an ideology which guides me.
Am I the only one on the list?

>
>> ... a informed higher authority ...
>
> the existence of which is an assumption that is not actually proved.

Or disproved, so why not continue the discussion?



>
>> I think that is like expecting Network Solutions to have voted for 
>> competing DNS registrars
>
> the expression of opinion, absent a reference to competition policy, in 
> the late 90s, or the present, is not convincing, nor, in the example 
> offered, correct.
>

I am assuming a historical perspective from the intelligent posters here, 
perhaps a remedial lesson is required in some cases.


>> But nobody seems too sure what that higher authority is ...
>
> i hadn't observed a question asked, only an assertion that an answer 
> existed, in a specific form.
>
> eric
>

Huh?

Regards,
Mike