Well that's interesting. Last August I included a copy of the ARIN Mission
Statement that I cut and pasted from ARINs web site into one of my comments to
this community. This was the statement:
“Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN, a nonprofit corporation,
allocates Internet Protocol resources; develops consensus-based policies; and
facilitates the advancement of the Internet through information and educational
outreach.”
I looked at ARINs web site today since the Mission Statement below didn't look
like what I remembered and lo and behold - the Mission Statement has changed.
David is correct that it says:
"ARIN, a nonprofit member-based organization, supports the operation of the
Internet through the management of Internet number resources throughout its
service region; coordinates the development of policies by the community for
the management of Internet Protocol number resources; and advances the Internet
through informational outreach."
It would have been nice if ARIN had let this community know of the change. The
way I read the new Mission Statement it has changed a lot and I think the
entire mission has changed. It doesn't even say that ARIN is supposed to
Allocate Internet Resources anymore. Isn't this community supposed to have
input to ARIN for as significant a change as a Mission Statement change?
I wonder why it changed?
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Farmer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 7:08 PM
To: Steven Ryerse
Cc: Matthew Wilder; Chris Grundemann; [email protected]; David Farmer
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles - revised
On 7/15/13 17:53 , Steven Ryerse wrote:
> So I infer from your comments that this community doesn't have to help create
> policies that align with ARIN's stated mission. Wow! So following that logic
> to the extreme then would it be OK for this community to create a policy that
> no more allocations of any kind will be made? I think not! So then is it OK
> for this community to create policies that's primary goal is to partially
> stop allocations? Using the exact same logic as I used above - I think not.
> I do think it is OK for this community to help create policies that right
> size allocations and I think that is covered in the Mission Statement.
>
> I humbly submit that ignorance of ARINs Mission Statement is the underlying
> problem why I think policy making in this community has gone off track.
No policies have to align with the mission statement, or if they are far enough
out of line with the mission statement the Board wouldn't approve a policy.
However, the mission statement isn't as clear cut as you seem to think it is.
ARIN, a nonprofit member-based organization, supports the operation
of the Internet through the management of Internet number resources
throughout its service region; coordinates the development of
policies by the community for the management of Internet Protocol
number resources; and advances the Internet through informational
outreach.
The above mission statement allow a wide variety of things, the interpretation
of which of those are good or bad is mostly up to the community. And I don't
see how any of the proposed Principles in
ARIN-2013-4 conflict with the mission statement.
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