ARIN is staffed from NSI

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

On Monday, April 13, 1998 12:03 AM, Karl Denninger[SMTP:karl@mcs.net] wrote:
<snip>
@
@I got involved in ARIN precisely because I was one of the folks who had
@SERIOUS problems with how NSI handled this stuff in the past.  I also had
@and have serious problems with Postel's handling of damn near everything he
@has touched in the last three years, and believe that his board membership
@in ARIN is a monstrous conflict of interest.
@

How is ARIN any different now from in the past ?
As far as I can tell the people are the same NSI employees from the InterNIC.

One of the ways that ARIN was "sold" by the ARIN Board members
was that NSI employees would not be running ARIN. They claimed the NSI people
would be replaced once things were started. What happened to that plan ?

Some of this sounds similar to the proposed Green Paper IANA Inc. plan.
People claim that Jon Postel and his ITAG group will not be involved once
it gets started. Will that end up like ARIN ?

Why is it that these organizations get started and people make all sorts
of claims to quiet the concerns and then when things become operational
all of those promises get convienantly forgotten ?

Why not just focus on the fact that the U.S. Government has once again
helped to launch a company to provide a conduit for the Internet resources
that Jon Postel slowly doles out ? Why not face the fact that the U.S.
Government needs to step into the middle of ARIN to help make sure that
these resource allocations are done fairly under the guidelines the U.S.
Government has for such operations they create ?

Why doesn't the U.S. Government use the ARIN structure they helped to
create to bring Jon Postel and his allocation policies into the open for
public review ? All of the so-called IANA resources can be monitored
from ARIN until they are properly distributed, via U.S. Government procedures,
to other companies. ARIN should have more than enough structure to
make that happen immediately. ARIN already is doing ASNs and IP
addresses. It should not be much of an effort to add some more of the
U.S. Government assets that the IANA has been managing. This will
save time and money.


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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI