Global council of registries???

[Rudolph J. Geist]

Michael Dillon 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.
> 
> > 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


The point is not that all their information should be made available.  
The point is that there are certain portions of an ISPs application that 
should be subject to attack by other ISPs before that ISP gets numbers. 
Do you not agree that before an ISP gets space, it should have to prove 
certain technical characteristics.  And do you not agree that it is 
arbitrary and capricious if say, a very large allocation somehow goes to 
an ISP with no technical plan.  And do you not agree that there is a 
substantial possibility of this happening behind a single closed door 
organization.  Now, don't you agree that if there was a check on this in 
the form of peer review (i.e, some proprietary information is required 
to be made available to justify technical qualification and need to 
receive IPs,) there would be less likelihood of impropoer allocations.