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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Kremen's Buddy?
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 06:55:11PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > I find the references to alleged, inherent difficulties with the ARIN > resource assignment process increasingly tedious. Even if the > templates were "impossible to decipher", this isn't the forum to > discuss them. > > In my opinion, you do the argument in favour of open trading of > addresses as commodities a rank disservice by linking it to this kind > of FUD. Ever notice the only folks happy with the status quo are the few who have already have an intimate knowledge of the ARIN allocation process, and/or have the right political connections to resolve the "issues" that come up when dealing with them? Try looking at it from an outsider's point of view instead. If you're new to dealing with ARIN, it is not uncommon to find the process is absolutely baffling, frustrating, slow, expensive, and requiring intrusive disclosure just shy of an anal cavity probe. In any kind of free market system, competition would have bitchslapped the current ARIN way of doing things a long, long time ago. Personally I find the single most compelling reason to move to IPv6 to be the removal of any justification for ARIN's continued existance in its current form. Somehow I suspect the only folks who wouldn't welcome this are the ones who benefit from the one thing ARIN is actually good at doing, namely paying for frequent business class travel and accomodations to exotic locations around the world under the pretense of "meetings". Hrm guess I had better offer dinner in St Louis is on me for whichever one of my friends on the "ARIN travel plan" complains about this post first. :) -- Richard A Steenbergen <[email protected]> http://www.e-gerbil.net/ras GPG Key ID: 0xF8B12CBC (7535 7F59 8204 ED1F CC1C 53AF 4C41 5ECA F8B1 2CBC)
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