What is the status of ARIN?

[Randy Bush]

> kahin and his ilk are doing "private sector" bidding because the internet
> old boy community doesn't have the innate "business" intelligence to run
> the Internet as a profit making BUSINESS and tried to deliver inyternet
> governace to the ITU.

Hypothesis:

There is a large body of internet old folk who know very well how to run
profit making internet businesses.  And they are doing so quite avidly.
Who do you think is running MCI, cisco, UUNET, Ascend, ..., Mother Goose?

This leaves a body of old (and new wannabe) internet folk with no business
clue (they may lack some other clues as well).  Thus they have a lot of
time on their hands.  Because they can not do anything really useful, they
think that they can become experts in internet governance.

If this continue to happen, and grownups are foolish enough to take them
seriously, the result will be appalling.

randy