Global council of registries???

[Jim Fleming]

On Monday, April 28, 1997 10:57 AM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael at MEMRA.COM] wrote:
@ 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.
@ 

What about the flip-side....?????

Is everyone supposed to give this information to
ARIN and then find out that someone from Erols
or another "East Coast" ISP or the ISP/C is off
discussing this information on the ISP mailing lists ?

Yeah...that is what people want...
line up here....take your ARIN pill....and watch
your information be broadcast at the next sushi party...

@ > 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
@ Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-250-546-3049
@ http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael at memra.com
@ 

Your statements and your continual lobbying
of selected ISPs and InterNIC insiders does
nothing to advance the Internet.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp

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