[arin-ppml] Internet Fairness

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

First point here Steven is you have completely ignored and failed to 
respond to my first comment regarding why ARIN is the way it is - 
because it exists in a capitalistic society - because you have no answer 
for that.

I do not really believe for a second that you really want an honest 
debate on this issue.  What you are doing is sitting back and cherry 
picking weak arguments to respond to, and ignoring strong ones.  So I am 
not going to waste much more time with you on this.

But I will say that your comment:

" If .com domain names were nearing runout, would that really make it OK 
to start denying small Orgs .com domain name requests?"

is one of the most ignorant I've seen on this list in quite a while.

The DNS system exists to make IP addresses that are hard to remember,
replaced by domain names that are easy to remember.  The average English 
speaking adult knows about 50,000 English words.  There's over 100 
million .com domain names registered at this point.  We have far and 
away exceeded the number of English .com one word domain names that an 
average person would know.

Therefore we have long ago "run out" of .com domain names.  Oh sure, you 
can still register new .com domain names that are nonsense like 
fdgcjghhgeafvrar.com or you can make up elaborate long sentences like 
thisismynewdomainanemisntitkewel.com and register those names, but 
neither of those meets the bar of being an easy to remember name.  They 
are, in fact, harder to remember than the IP addresses that they are 
supposed to make "easy to remember"

There

On 12/18/2014 9:15 AM, Steven Ryerse wrote:
> Thanks for your comments!  Actually the total number of possible .com permutations is limited too.  IPv4 addresses and .com domain names are both just Internet resources that Internet users need to use the Internet.  Obviously there are less IPv4 addresses than .com combinations, but IPv4 is still the only way to access most of the Internet.  While ARIN has resources to allocate - I'm absolutely fine limiting the size of an allocation to match the size of an Org and their network, but I'm not fine with denying an Org any resources.
>
> Also IPv4 cannot somehow be saved by conservation.  Regardless of any policy, ARIN will run out of IPv4 probably within the next year.  If .com domain names were nearing runout, would that really make it OK to start denying small Orgs .com domain name requests?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Sullivan
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2014 11:59 AM
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> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Internet Fairness
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> On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 04:35:41PM +0000, Steven Ryerse wrote:
>>
>> If it is not OK to deny the Minimum domain (available) name to an Org, then it isn’t OK to deny an Org the Minimum  IP allocation.  They are both Internet resources.
>>
>
> The analogy seems faulty to me.  The number space is finite (and in the case of v4, not very large).  The name space in any given registry is admittedly not infinite, since (1) it's limited to labels 63 octets long from the LDH repertoire and (2) useful mnemonics are generally shorter than 63 octets and usually a wordlike thing in some natural language.  There are, however, lots of registries (more all the time!
> Thanks, ICANN!); and last I checked neither info nor biz was anything close to the size (or utility) of com, even though they've both been around since 2001 and have rather similar registration rules.  So, there is an argument in favour of tight rules for allocation of v4 numbers that is not available in the name case.
>
> Best regards,
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> A
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