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[Jim Fleming]

On Saturday, March 29, 1997 10:45 AM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael at MEMRA.COM] wrote:
@ On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Michael Gersten wrote:
@ 
@ > Why even give it to ARIN in the first place? As someone else said,
@ > what if a lawsuit against the NSI wins, and the NSI goes bankrupt?
@ 
@ Then the skilled people who are performing the IP allocation services as
@ employees of NSI find jobs at other DC area companies such as
@ UUnet/Worldcom, PSI, AOL, Digex, DataXchange and numerous others who are
@ faced with finding employees in a market where demand for skilled
@ employees is twice the current supply. And who knows what happens to the
@ records, the trash perhaps?
@ 

Who are these rocket scientists ?

@ In fact, if things even get close to that point, those skilled employees
@ are not going to hang on for the ride.
@ 
@ I expect that the solution will be for IANA to choose either RIPE or APNIC
@ as the IP allocation authority for North America because they will be the
@ only people who know how to do the job.
@ 

I think there are thousands of people in the U.S.
that can do the job. In fact, I think there are people
that can do a better job. Have you looked at IN-ADDR.ARPA
lately ?

@ > Now, ARIN might be a really good idea. We'll never know from just
@ > a proposal on paper. We'll only know if it tries and succedes.
@ > Or if it tries and fails. That means it has to be started.
@ 
@ Exactly. We can be pretty sure that if we take the same people, the same
@ systems and the same funding level as the Internic's IP allocation service
@ then we have a darn good chance of maintaining the same level of service.
@ And once that hurdle is past, then we are free to start changing the
@ policies and the activities of ARIN to better serve the people who use IP
@ addresses in North America.
@ 

These are some of the same people that gave us
domain name charging based on seat of the pants
estimates and arbitrary dispute policies. I think that
back in 1995 when the charging was casually railroaded
past the NSF, people made absurd statements about
changing things after things were rolling. In fact, I think
one of the avid suporters even claimed that excess
charges would of course be returned, because that would
be the right thing to do.

The new management being brought into Network Solutions, Inc.
is working hard to clean up this mess and in my opinion
they are making good progress and are synergistic with
the commercial Registry Industry. They should be allowed
to stay the course and work with other companies to help
expand the opportunities.

@ > Now, someone who knows the unallocated layout better than I do might
@ > be able to say whether a /8 or a /10 (or even a /12) would be a better
@ > choice.
@ 
@ This is silly. If the Internic is going to stop doing IP allocations and
@ ARIN is going to start then they should just carry on with whatever
@ chunk of IP space that IANA has currently allocated to the Internic.
@ 

How do they propose to pay for it ?

@ > Incidently, in the DNS field, eDNS is doing something similar. 
@ 
@ Irrelevant. IP allocations are totally unlike DNS.
@ 
@ 
@ Michael Dillon                   -               Internet & ISP Consulting
@ Memra Software Inc.              -                  Fax: +1-250-546-3049
@ http://www.memra.com             -               E-mail: michael at memra.com
@ 

Michael,

Everyone sees through this strategy of trying to convince
novice government administrators that domain names are
apples and IP addresses are oranges and therefore they
need to have different infrastructure. The infrastructure and
the business needs are largely the same and that is what
is critical to the success or failure of the Registry Industry.


--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
http://www.Unir.Corp

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