ARIN Proposal

[David A. Dobbs]

I oppose the formation of the ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers)
without further justifiable reasoning and demonstrated need.  I have many
questions and concerns.

1)      Why are the fees needed?  What has changed or is about to change that
the formation of a new organization is needed?

2)      Under what authority does Network Solution, Inc. have to create a new
organization that would impose these fees?  Under what authority would this
organization enforce or control allocation and issuance of IP addresses?

3)      What was the criterion used to decide how much the fees should be and
who should pay these fees?  Is this a plan to weed out numerous small ISPs
and to discourage new startup ISPs?

4)      How will the money be spent?  This organization would be collecting many
millions of dollars.  What would the ISP get in return?  What is the
benefit?

5)      Who will be the people what will make up this organization?  How will
the "select" few be chosen?  Persons that "understand" the issues as the
issues are defined by Network Solutions, Inc. or if by representative
people from the Internet community (ISP's, vendors, government, educators,
corporate users, back bone providers), will they like minded with interest
similar to big business?  Who will oversee this group of people (i.e., the
registry)?

I ask that this plan NOT be implemented until they can make reasonable
answers and assurances.

Thank you

David A. Dobbs
Data Processing Manager
Saco River Tel & Tel Co
(207) 929-9250
dadobbs at mix-net.net