[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-172 Additional definition for NRPM Section 2 - Legacy Resources

[Jimmy Hess]

On 6/19/12, William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
> The PDP? Really? That's their protection?
> The same board of seven trustees that adopts and rejects policy by a
> simple majority vote also sets the PDP by a simple majority vote. If

The size of the company does not matter, the available protections are the same.
All organizations that receive service from the RIR must be treated
equally, or so said the ICP-2.

ARIN has a mission, and some rules they have to follow besides the PDP.
If the ARIN board were to act so egregiously,  and the community were not
in agreement,   the  situation may create interest from other organizations
that have a role in the standards making process.

For example,  ARIN has to follow some RFCs in their allocation and
management of resources;   if there were sufficient demand from the
community, the IETF or IAB
may have something to say about it.

It is possible that the ICANN community would select a new
organization to replace ARIN.

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-JH