RE: ARIN Groupies

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

On Tuesday, April 14, 1998 6:35 PM, Roeland M.J. Meyer[SMTP:rmeyer@mhsc.com] wrote:
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@I hadn't realized that ARIN requires Business plans for IP allocation
@justification. Where is the technical need for this, or in the parlance of
@the DOD "What's their need-to-know"?
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Roeland,

I have been saying this for years. The people behind ARIN
seem to thrive on pawing through as much inside information
as they can get and yet there does not seem to be any need
for it. Furthermore, other people in the Internet business seem
to thrive on discussing this information and they flock to all of
the conferences to hear the latest gossip.

One of the ARIN Board members once told me that the whole
enterprise is in desperate need of adult supervision. Some
companies are apparently quite disturbed by the entire affair.
I believe that SAIC and NSI saw the writing on the wall and
wisely put the whole thing at arm's length.

What I mostly see from ARIN advocates are URLs pointed
to pictures where their leaders are demonstrating how to
snort beer through their nose. Now there is a useful talent !

At this point I think that the U.S. Government needs to step
in and kill several birds with the same stone.

1. Get ARIN under control
2. Get IANA Inc. moving
3. Help set a better example for the rest of the world...



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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI