Blah blah is right.....

[Ron Wickersham]

On Sat, 29 Mar 1997, Michael Dillon wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 

Is it not worth considering choosing either RIPE or APNIC in the first place?

What is the compelling position that makes a 5-way regional 
decentralization better than a single world-wide allocation authority (or 
a 50-way decentralized model for that matter)?

-Ron Wickersham
 rjw at crl.com