RE: ARIN Duplicates Other Government Functions

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

On Monday, April 13, 1998 5:35 AM, Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com] wrote:
@
@> In the case about the ISPs, it is not hard to do an informal survey. As an 
@> example, can you provide us with a description about what the process was 
@> to obtain your last allocation ?
@
@How is an informal survey going to tell you when the last time that MCI
@was audited is?
@

I did not claim that an informal survey would disclose everything. I was mostly
responding to your question about why I think that large companies are given
a "pass" while small companies are given the third-degree.

If you go into the market and ask large companies how they get their IP
allocations from ARIN you will likely get a flip answer such as, "We have
no problem getting as much IP space as we need, we have an office in
Washington, D.C., near ARIN...need we say more...?"

Now, maybe this is just sales talk and bluster. Maybe this is used to
convince the end users that IP address space will not be a problem.
Without information coming from ARIN on a daily or weekly basis it
is hard to determine this. Without some accounting of exactly how
much time was spent with MCI and how much with new ISPs it is
hard to know.

In my opinion, this all starts with the problem that ARIN has a monopoly
granted by the U.S. Government on allocations for North America. In
the past I have suggest that at a minimum, each State have an agency
equivalent to ARIN.

Why do people think that one small private company in Washington, D.C.
should have the right to be a monopoly in this industry ?
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI