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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Bill,<BR>
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My error in stating community rather than the specific voting community.<BR>
You may call it a lie if you choose.<BR>
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My point is that we work hard in the role that we have to respond to the needs of the community and to craft policy..in a timely fashion...which the community wants. As such, we reshaped the 2011-1 language to respond to what we heard in Philly and in San Juan before.<BR>
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The result is what is offered to last call and has been supported and challenged.<BR>
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bd<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: wherrin@gmail.com on behalf of William Herrin<BR>
Sent: Tue 11/8/2011 2:03 PM<BR>
To: Bill Darte<BR>
Cc: John Curran; arin-ppml@arin.net<BR>
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Petition draft 2011-1 last call<BR>
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On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 7:11 AM, Bill Darte <BillD@cait.wustl.edu> wrote:<BR>
> The AC is made up of community representatives elected by that community.<BR>
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Bill,<BR>
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That's a lie, is it not? I believe you when you say you try to do your<BR>
best for the entire community. Were the entire community eligible to<BR>
vote, they might well have elected you. But they weren't and aren't<BR>
eligible to vote.<BR>
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In fact, the eligibility to vote in the election which put you on the<BR>
advisory council was restricted to "ARIN members," a tiny fraction of<BR>
the number-resource using community in the ARIN region consisting<BR>
almost but not quite exclusively of ISPs. Nor can you claim to be a<BR>
second-level representative, elected by people who were elected by the<BR>
community at large.<BR>
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So, let's dispose of this notion that any member of the AC has a<BR>
representative mandate which arises from his or her election by "the<BR>
community." Your mandate comes top down from the Board of Trustees,<BR>
their direction to the AC to develop number policy for the<BR>
organization. To what has, since the demise of the IRPEP, become a<BR>
progressively more secondary consideration, it also comes bottom up<BR>
from the vocal support or opposition offered on specific text.<BR>
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At least, it bubbles up when that text is actually presented to the<BR>
whole community instead of just the portion which haunts PPML. Which<BR>
draft 2011-1, having never seen a public meeting in anything close to<BR>
its current form, has not.<BR>
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Regards,<BR>
Bill Herrin<BR>
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William D. Herrin ................ herrin@dirtside.com bill@herrin.us<BR>
3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <<A HREF="http://bill.herrin.us/">http://bill.herrin.us/</A>><BR>
Falls Church, VA 22042-3004<BR>
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