Comments on ARIN proposal

[Billy Biggs]

Paul,

Since this organization will affect the internet population as a whole
via deciding who is allowed allocations and also managing the basic state
of network resources for internet users in North America, I believe it
would be better served by a larger membership base.  While the end user
would almost never go directly to ARIN for allocations, the policies
governing who does get them would be, in my opinion, of more general intrest.

Lower fees for voting members would greatly improve this proposal as far
as I'm concerned.

--Billy

On Tue, 21 Jan 1997, Paul Ferguson wrote:

> Jay,
>
> One issue which you may not be aware of, is that the allocation-based
> fees only apply to organizations which obtain their IP address allocations
> directly from ARIN; as per RFC2050, organizations should always be obtaining
> their addresses from their upstream provider(s) & will be virtually unaffected
> by this proposal.
>
> - paul
>
> At 08:21 AM 1/21/97 -0500, Jay Vassos-Libove wrote:
>
> >To those responsible for the final design of ARIN -
> >
> >I am the network manager for a private company with a connection to the
> >Internet, as well as a user of the Internet/NSF Net/ARPAnet for over a
> >decade.
> >
> >Only recently did I become aware of the ARIN proposal.
> >
> >I strongly favor moving control over both Numbering and Domain Naming in
> >to the hands of a by-the-network, of-the-network, and for-the-network
> >non-profit corporation.
> >
> >However, the fee structure in the ARIN proposal at http://www.arin.net/
> >disturbs me.  An annual membership fee of $1000 will eliminate most
> >interested parties except for medium to large businesses (whether or not
> >they be Internet Service Providers) and "Political Action Committees" (so
> >to speak).
> >
> >I fear that this will result in poor representation for the small
> >entrepeneur, to whom the Internet has heretofore been such a boon, and to
> >the individual interest party (such as myself) with a historical and/or
> >personal interest in the welfare of the Internet.
> >
> >Please consider annual membership fees based on tiers, or classified by
> >the status (individual, small business, small ISP, medium sized business,
> >medium sized ISP, etc) of the interested party, to accomodate interested
> >individuals (such as myself) and small businesses who may be impacted by
> >ARIN's policies and actions, and maintain a one-member-one-vote policy, so
> >that money and size do not result in the usual "money has influence"
> >politics which so far have been avoided on the Internet.
> >
> >Sincerely
> >Jay Vassos-Libove
> >libove at felines.org
> >