<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div>IANA controls root servers but doesn't ARIN control reverse delegation.<br>Then why do we need ARIN again if they control nothing about our Internet access?<br>We just need IANA. ARIN can go away then and we will be all fine?<br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><b>From: </b>"Matthew Petach" <mpetach@netflight.com><br><b>To: </b>"pmcnary" <pmcnary@cameron.net><br><b>Cc: </b>"arin-ppml" <arin-ppml@arin.net><br><b>Sent: </b>Monday, July 25, 2022 3:14:23 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [arin-ppml] Deceased Companies?<br></div><div><br></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I don't usually post memes to policy mailing lists, but...</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 25, 2022 at 1:08 PM Paul E McNary <<a href="mailto:pmcnary@cameron.net" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">pmcnary@cameron.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb( 204 , 204 , 204 );padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:'arial' , 'helvetica' , sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb( 0 , 0 , 0 )"><div>ARIN controls the root servers for this region do they not.<br>Without the root servers nothing gets routed.<br>That is a part of the number resources ARIN made commitments to maintain for all resources that had been allocated.<br>And yes I was well alive before Al Gore invented the Internet. :-)<br></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div><img src="cid:ii_l616rhfl0" alt="image.png" width="498" height="197"><br></div><div><a href="https://media.tenor.com/images/ec1e284a7da93f47ee8499c4462f3539/tenor.png" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://media.tenor.com/images/ec1e284a7da93f47ee8499c4462f3539/tenor.png</a><br></div><br><div>In this case, I would argue it was warranted. ^_^;</div><br><div>No, ARIN does not control the root servers.</div><br><div>No, the root servers don't control routing of IP addresses.</div><br><div>No, ARIN made no commitment of any sort about root servers.</div><br><div>And no, Al Gore did not invent the Internet. ^_^;</div><br><div>Matt</div></div></div><br></div></div></body></html>