AOP Notification

[Dave McClure]

Kim:

Taking Donald Telage out of this equation as a person, I have two questions about the NSI/ARIN relationship.  (I'm focusing on the process used to create ARIN rather than the people involved).

1)  Why is NSI funding ARIN?  First, let me point out that if ARIN moves immediately to implement its fee structure, cash flow will be of less concern than the structure and integrity of the organization.  And it seems to me that it is very awkward for a single private company to hold such primary financial power over ARIN.

2)  My understanding is that by its contract NSI has turned over to NSF 30 percent of the funds raised by the domain name registry fees, and that this fund is currently about $12 million (and will be much more than that, once NSI begins to collect the fees that it has not collected to date).  This NSF fund is purported to be money to be used for the good of the Internet, and according to the Washington Post there is some confusion as to how best use these funds.  Why do we not apply to NSF that some or all of these funds be used to help start ARIN?  This would eliminate the NSI/ARIN financial ties, and could likewise be used to reduce or eliminate the steep dues ARIN is proposed to charge.

Dave McClure

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From: 	Kim Hubbard[SMTP:kimh at INTERNIC.NET]
Sent: 	Saturday, February 01, 1997 9:01 PM
To: 	Michael Dillon
Cc: 	NAIPR at LISTS.INTERNIC.NET
Subject: 	Re: AOP Notification

> 
> But an even more important conflict, IMHO, exists with Donald Telage's
> position on the BoT. Since one of the reasons for creating ARIN is to
> separate the two NIC functions of domain name registration and IP address
> allocation, I feel that it is not wise to appoint the CEO of the world's
> largest commercial domain name registry to the BoT of ARIN. Since the
> cooperative agreement between the NSF and Network Solutions Inc. runs for
> another year after the proposed creation date for ARIN, there is clearly a
> conflict here. 


Michael - could you please explain this conflict?  NSI will be financing
ARIN until it is capable of fully funding itself.  It is certainly
understandable that they would want a seat on the BoT until they
are no longer financially involved.  

Again, I don't understand why you feel the fact that NSI is a
domain registry would cause a conflict.

Kim