If you analyze the changes in the mission statement, you will notice that the changes serve exactly the purpose of empowering the community as opposed to ARIN itself, so you're crying foul that ARIN is doing what you want them to.
mw -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Ryerse Sent: July 16, 2013 12:01 PM To: John Curran Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles - revised I certainly think that ARIN has the right to change the Mission Statement when it wants to. I would comment though that ARIN deciding to make a significant rewrite to the Mission Statement without this community's input first - sure does puncture the illusion that ARIN only changes policies with this community's consensus. Steven L Ryerse President 100 Ashford Center North, Suite 110, Atlanta, GA 30338 770.656.1460 - Cell 770.399.9099 - Office 770.392-0076 - Fax ℠ Eclipse Networks, Inc. Conquering Complex Networks℠ -----Original Message----- From: John Curran [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 2:51 PM To: Steven Ryerse Cc: David Farmer; [email protected] Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2013-4: RIR Principles - revised On Jul 16, 2013, at 2:40 PM, Steven Ryerse <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. <https://www.arin.net/announcements/2012/20121012_mission.html> > I wonder why it changed? It was changed to make it clear that ARIN does not develop the policies, but instead "coordinates the development of policies by the community" (This is accomplished by mechanisms such as the ARIN Policy Development Process, maintenance of this Public Policy Mailing List, support of the the ARIN Advisory Council, etc.) Thanks, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues. _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
