Registries differences

[Randy Bush]

>> Why aren't any small companies represented ?

Membership forms are coming!

And I would guess that Scott Bradner's company is about the size of Raymundo
Vega's.

>> Why is it always the same people ?

Because some people work and other flame on mailing lists.  That seems to
be life on the new internet.  We could have a new ethnicity-free kids'
game, engineers and sociopaths.

>> Why can't ARIN be built from the grass roots ?

When you hear that, what the writer really means is why can't he own it.

I just spent some hours with a haggard net.friend who is a fellow backbone
engineer.  Recent technical problems, some of which surfaced in the usual
semi-constructive way on nanog at merit.edu, mean he has not seen a lot of his
family the last week, has not gotten a lot of sleep, all the usual.  And he
did it far beyond what he owes an employer, and much was debugging for the
benefit of all of us.  Coming come back the tube and reading the usual
pathetic drivel from the contribute nothing but scream like murder
net.sickos does keep it all in perspective.

The bottom line is track record.  Not track tearing.  Not track derailing.
But pounding the damn dirt around the track with the rest of us worms.

randy