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On Sat, 18 Apr 1998, Dean Robb wrote: > At 10:43 4/18/98 -0400, you wrote: > >Dean sez: > >All the questions can probably be answered by noting that ARIN is a > >non-profit arm of NSI. > > > >this is not true > > http://rs.arin.net/faq.html > > "17. What are the roles of Network Solutions and the InterNIC? > > NSI�s role is to sponsor ARIN, providing assistance to its establishment > and providing initial support of ARIN until ARIN is self-funding. Once this > is achieved, there will be no ties--financial, management or other--between > the two organizations. ARIN will be an independent, non-profit organization > responding to its membership. " > > Since it is not yet self-funding, what, exactly, part is untrue of my > statement? I don't claim to have the definitive answer but this FAQ was written when the plan was for NSI to donate a pile of money to finance the first year of ARIN operations. But I believe that this plan fell through and this financing never happened. Even if it had happened, ARIN is an independent non-profit corporation meaning that there are no shareholders other than the members therefore there is no outside control like you find in the corporate world. -- Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected]
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