RE: ARIN Duplicates Other Government Functions

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

On Monday, April 13, 1998 5:10 AM, Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com] wrote:
@> I do not believe that there is much evaluation done for the larger ISPs,
@> except maybe a review of their hospitality suite at a trade show. Since
@> there does not appear to be any public disclosure of what goes on at
@> ARIN or for that matter anything about the internal management structure
@> at ARIN, it is very difficult to tell what is really going on there. One can
@> only deduce what is going on based on what others disclose since most
@> people are not privy to the private e-mail exchanges between the members
@> of the ARIN nation.
@
@And how do you know this?
@

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 long did it take ?
What is your estimate of how long ARIN (or InterNIC) staff spent on it ?
What did it cost you and what do you estimate it cost them ?

As for the management structure of ARIN. It appears that there is a Board
and an Advisory Committee, Kim Hubbard and the rest of the ARIN staff.
http://www.arin.net/arinstaff.html

Is there an org chart ?
Does the rest of the staff have e-mail addresses ?
What is the reporting structure ?
Where does Jon Postel fit into the day to day operations ?

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI