ARIN is not NEW

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>]

On Sunday, April 12, 1998 1:37 PM, Ed Kern[SMTP:ejk@digex.net] wrote:
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Ed,

On one hand you claim not to have any history, yet on the other
you accuse Karl of not participating. One of the problems is that
ARIN has emerged from the dust of the Internet Registry Industry
debates and it has a long history that apparently you are not aware
of. Unfortunately, that history has not been a good one.

Now, before people try to claim that ARIN is a couple months old
and just had its first members meeting, people should study the
entire history of the InterNIC dating back to charging in 1995 and
beyond to the early 90s and if you like earlier than that. [As a side
note, don't forget to read the 1985 posting of Jon Postel where he
claims that .ARPA is a temporary thing that will be phased out.] :-)

ARIN is part of the left-overs from the NSI rocket ship that has
launched itself from the Internet Registry Industry. If the U.S.
Government truely wants to give other people a chance, it will
call upon ARIN (which is really Jon Postel's non-profit company)
to pull in the IANA Inc. tasks and get the rest of the Registry
Industry launched. Since Jon Postel is one person, it seems
reasonable to have him put his eggs in one basket and then the
U.S. Government can help him watch that basket. Also, the
rest of the ARIN employees, Board, Advisors, and Members
can help him watch that basket.

This approach will help ARIN justify the 15 people and will allow
the U.S. Government to simultaneously review what goes on
with ARIN for the next few years. It will save money and time
which is a critical thing at this point in time. With the NSI
rocket launched, it hardly seems fair to require the other
registries to sit around waiting to be launched. The ARIN
structure can be used to help accelerate the process. The
U.S. taxpayers paid for the ARIN structure, so they should
have a right to use it to their advantage. To spend money
creating another IANA Inc. and a GAR would be a waste and
would just serve to spread Jon Postel too thin and make it
more difficult to track his decisions about Internet resources.

I have confidence that new people can be brought into the
ARIN structure to not only keep IP allocations going, but
also to make them more fair which will be part of the goal
of the IANA Inc. If at a later date it appears that a large
part of the ARIN operation needs to be split off, then that
can always occur. At the moment, the need is for a corporate
structure to house the IANA and since Jon Postel is already
part of ARIN, why not make the IANA and ARIN one and the
same ?

-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI