RE $50 Million NSF windfall??

[Douglas Denny]

On Thu, 13 Mar 1997, Dennis Ferguson wrote:

> > Should RIPE and APNIC be pulled back to the U.S. ?
> 
> RIPE and APNIC seem to have large enough consituencies to achieve
> efficient and skilled operations.  Regions 1/10th the size of the
> U.S. do not seem to.

	It is incorrect to say that Canada could not support it's own
registry. Canada and the US have always had very close working 
relationships ( Canada is the States' largest trading partner after all),
and it was felt that better economies of scale could be realized by
utilizing the Internic's resources. ARIN provides a natural extension of
this service by attaching a nominal cost associated stable administration of
address space. This is not to say that there are people within the Canadian
Internet community who feel that having our own Internet Number Registry
would be a good thing.

> No, actually I said that organizations which allocate IP addresses perform
> a small, complex task which does not involve building infrastructure, but
> which instead is a service that those who do build infrastructure require
> to be done well.

	Absolutely.

	BTW Jim, there are large areas of Canada that are very connected.
Penetration of Internet service on a per capita basis is extrely high,
probably one of the highest in the world, not exactly a rural backwater.

Cheers

-Doug

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