On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:05 AM, John Curran <[email protected]> wrote: > On Apr 7, 2014, at 10:17 AM, Milton L Mueller <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> absent any change in >>> direction, ARIN must hold to the position set at its establishment and its >>> in >>> foundational documents that all address space in the registry is subject to >>> community-develop number resource policy. >> >> Not sure I buy the assertion that these principles were in the foundational >> documents; ... That's because John has misstated the language, discussion and agreements surrounding ARIN's creation. Replace "address space in the registry" with "address space subsequently assigned by the registry" and the above would be accurate. > For example: <https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102819> - > "Creation of ARIN will give the users of IP numbers (mostly Internet > service providers, corporations and other large institutions) a voice > in the policies by which they are _managed and allocated_ [emphasis > added] within the North American region." ARIN's incorporation is For example: http://archive.psg.com/970414.fncac.pdf quoting from page 9: "Current and old allocations and their DNS will be maintained with no policy changes" This was a sample the promises made and repeated publicly during ARIN's creation, regardless of what was done behind the scenes. This particular one was made to the federal government board which had to approve ARIN's creation. What's more, ARIN has honored this promise in every substantive respect for the better part of two decades, so by now laches surely applies. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 _______________________________________________ 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.
