ARIN Duplicates Other Government Functions

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

On Sunday, April 12, 1998 11:47 PM, Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com] wrote:
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@How are you going to verify allocations and future growth without 
@evaluation confidential/proprietary/trade-secret info?
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Avi

How does ARIN plan to have the resources to evaluate plans
such as the WorldCOM - MCI merger ?

What background, skills, etc. do ARIN people have to handle
the aquisition of BBN by GTE ?

What right does ARIN have to evaluate company's trade-secrets and
furthermore, what protection do companies have that those trade-secrets
are kept that way. If you recall, you, yourself were once caught passing
comments behind the scenes to Kim Hubbard (now President of ARIN)
on a small private mailing list that you inadvertently copied to others.
If I recall, I think your response at the time was..."I guess I screwed up".

Where is all of this ARIN development headed ? Are people architecting
a private company that will now duplicate the efforts of large governments
in evaluating future plans of billion dollar companies and are people expected
to sit around while information is passed on the Internet and then will ARIN
finally pontificate a "ruling" with the result being that major companies live
and die based on people like you who admit that you screwed up ?

Please explain how you see all this working ?
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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI