An intresting related post on Domain p list

[Jeff Williams]

All,

  Thought that this micht be worth sharing with this list.
I had ask Jim Fleming for his permission to cross post here.

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Subject: 
      Re: Privatization Works! -Reply & Flame
  Date: 
      Thu, 26 Jun 1997 11:47:49 -0500
  From: 
      Jim Fleming <JimFleming at UNETY.NET>
    To: 
      DOMAIN-POLICY at LISTS.INTERNIC.NET


On Thursday, June 26, 1997 11:39 AM, Christopher
Ambler[SMTP:chris at kosh.ambler.net] wrote:
@ Now and again, Jim Flemming points out very good points.
@
@ mainly, if the IAHC crowd are so concerned with public resources
@ and their monopolistic detractions, how do they allow ARIN to
@ exist? It's a monopoly by their definition. If ARIN decides to
@ increase fees for IP allocations, there's noplace else to go.
@
@ Where's the shared mentality now?
@

One thing that has not been pointed out clearly is
that ARIN only has a small part of the IPv4 address
space.

At least that was the impression people were
given. I asked several times on the ARIN discussion
list for the ARIN founders to point out the exact
IN-ADDR.ARPA delegations they will be managing
and never received a straight answer.

Since the ARPA Top Level Domain is an important
TLD, clearly ARIN should not be managing ALL of
.ARPA. The InterNIC currently controls that and it
is not clear who will be the TLD registrar for .ARPA.

People keep trying to claim that IP addresses and
domain names are not the same. That was a ploy
to fool the NSF and it clearly worked because the
NSF did not have a clue how any of this works.

Now that ARIN has gotten the NSF to cave in,
the sticky issues of who runs .ARPA have to be
worked out. Those issues are basically the same
as any other Top Level Domain.

I wonder if the ISOC/ITU plan to take over .ARPA ?

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation


Regards,
-- 
Jeffrey A. Williams
DIR. Internet Network Eng/SR. Java Development Eng.
Information Eng. Group. IEG. INC. 
Phone :913-294-2375 (v-office)
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