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I agree with your comments below. <br>
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Best Richard<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 16, 2014 7:06:17 PM CEST, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br />On Oct 16, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Richard Hill <rhill@hill-a.ch> wrote:<br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> As far as I can tell, ICANN properly speaking does the following things with<br /> respect to IP addresses:<br /> <br /> 1. Approves the creation of new RIRs<br /> 2. Ratifies the policies approved by the RIRs<br /> <br /> And, through the IANA function, it does the following:<br /> <br /> 3. Allocates top-level IP address blocks to the RIRs<br /> 4. Publishes those allocations on its web site<br /> <br /> One could envisage transferring all those functions to the NRO, which would<br /> in effect mean that the RIRs would be supervising those functions. Since<br /> the RIRs are responsible to their members, that would mean that the members<br /> of the RIRs would be supervising those functions.<br /></blockquote><br />Richard -<br /><br />This is cer!
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possible, but it is worth noting that the NRO is a <br />rather lightweight coordination function among the RIRs, allowing the <br />RIRs to coordinate on matters such as "whether we'll have an joint RIR <br />trade show booth at a given international conference", "can we work on <br />one informational brochure on IPv4 runout/IPv6 rather than having five",<br />"can we have a single joint number resource statistics report", etc. <br /><br />In these cases, each RIR is fulfilling each existing mission and operating<br />plans, only coordinating with other RIRs to do so in a more efficient and<br />consistent manner. Ultimately, each RIR acts under its own authority on<br />matters which are primarily outreach and operational in nature.<br /><br />Expanding the NRO to take on the functions listed could be done, but would<br />represent a fairly substantial change in the level of responsibility, and<br />may need to be accompanied by both organizational changes (e.g. actuall!
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/>incorporating the NRO) and accountability changes (e.g. more than simply <br />to the RIR executive directors, as it is at present.)<br /><br />If this approach were to be promoted, it would be good to have ample <br />discussion on this list first, including the aspects noted above.<br /><br />/John<br /><br />John Curran<br />President and CEO<br />ARIN<br /><br /><br /><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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