Invisible Hands, was Re: Multihoming sites and ARIN

[Jim Fleming]

On Saturday, February 22, 1997 12:35 PM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael at MEMRA.COM] wrote:
@ On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:
@ 
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@ The IAHC is a prime example of non-governmental industry self-regulation.
@ So is RIPE and APNIC and ARIN. This is the best way to do things and I
@ think you will discover that there is actually a lot of support for this
@ approach in most Western governments including that of the USA.
@ 

"non-govermental" for you appears to be zero government.

I find it interesting that many of the people you support
are being funded by the U.S. Government. Why don't they
give up that funding ?

"Industry self-regulation" being done by people who are
funded by the government, and who actively exclude the
industry members is worse than direct interaction between
the industry and the government.

There are THREE groups....

	1. 100% Government
	2. 100% Commercial
	3. the switch-hitters....

I am confident the first two groups can work together and
build a stable and reliable system that is responsive to the
commercial marketplace and accountable to the people
via the refereeing provided by #1.

The combination of #1 and #3 is a maze of twisty passages
and that maze goes nowhere....

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

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