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The ARIN Nation
- To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, "'Michael Dillon'" <michael@memra.com>
- Subject: The ARIN Nation
- From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 06:22:42 -0500
- Cc: "'Antitrust List'" <antitrust@essential.org>, "'antitrust@usdoj.gov'" <antitrust@usdoj.gov>, "arin-council@arin.net" <arin-council@arin.net>, "'Billy Biggs'" <bbiggs@div8.net>, "'BBURR@ntia.doc.gov'" <BBURR@ntia.doc.gov>, "'Don Mitchell'" <dmitchel@nsf.gov>
- Cc: Ed Kern <ejk@digex.net>, "'Don Heath'" <heath@isoc.org>, "'Ira_C._Magaziner@oa.eop.gov'" <Ira_C._Magaziner@oa.eop.gov>, "jcurran@bbnplanet.com" <jcurran@bbnplanet.com>, Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>, "'kawchuk@idirect.com'" <kawchuk@idirect.com>
- Cc: "'Marc Hurst'" <mhurst@fastlane.ca>, "'Richard J. Sexton'" <richard@sexton.com>, "'Robert L. Shearing'" <robert@priori.net>, "'weisberg@TEXOMA.NET'" <weisberg@texoma.net>
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On Sunday, April 12, 1998 8:10 PM, Michael Dillon[SMTP:michael@memra.com] wrote:
@On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:
@
@> 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.
@
@He is a non-voting ex-officio member of the BoT in his capacity as
@Director of IANA. Since ARIN basically allocates resources that are
@delegated to it by IANA, this doesn't appear to me to be a conflict of
@interest.
@
Michael,
As a Canadian, you might not be aware of the lengths that people go
to in the United States to make sure that things in government are
handled properly. Since it has finally been established that the IANA
(aka Jon Postel) works for the U.S. Government the rules apply to him
more than the average person. Since ARIN was founded via U.S. Government
funding and via the National Science Foundation it is subject to the same
rules.
In the past you have been an advocate of removing the boundaries of
the U.S. and blurring the geo-political differences. At one point you moved
from Canada to the U.S. to work and now appear to be back in Canada.
I am curious. When you move from one country to another do you flash
some sort of "Internet diplomatic passport" ? Does that make everyone
step out of the way to let you through ? Is there something that people
are missing here ? Do you wheel in and out of Washington D.C. like other
diplomats and park your car on the sidewalk and push everyone aside
as you dictate your new Internet diplomacy to them...and then disappear
as fast as you arrived ?
How does all this work ?
How do you speak with such authoriity (in other postings) about what
will happen in South America and Africa ? Where does the ARIN Nation
get off thinking they know anything about those regions ?
What about the Caribbean ? Did that escape your radar screen ?
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI