Global council of registries???

[Michael Dillon]

On Mon, 28 Apr 1997, Rudolph J. Geist wrote:

> It is highly suspicious to maintain that technical information (or any 
> information for that matter) regarding the allocation of IP address 
> blocks, a finite public resource (like telephone numbers or radio 
> spectrum), should be held proprietary by a monopoly outgrowth (ARIN) of 
> another monolpoly (Internic).

First, ARIN is not a monopoly, it is a non-profit organization that will
be run by its members and eventually funded by its members.

Second, did you consult with the members of the USIPA before making such a
shocking statement? For instance, would Erol's be willing to publicly
disclose all the details of its network connections including all of its
downstream customer networks? Have you asked those downstream customers
how they would feel if their network information was publicly available
to their competitors.

> This type of statement is exactly why so many in the Internet industry 
> are so concerned about the ARIN proposal, and the exisiting IP 
> allocation "guidelines," which frankly are about as consistent and 
> unambiguous when applied to any company or entity that applies other 
> than one of the "big twenty" as summer thunder storms in Miami.

This kind of statement does nothing to advance the interests of ISP's
whether they are members of your organization or not.

Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
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