On May 26, 2015, at 5:17 PM, William Herrin 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Steven Ryerse
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
You know, ARIN was first chartered to help further the Internet.
Why is it that many here want ARIN to do the opposite?

Because you're mistaken. That's ISOC's charter.

For clarity -

    ARIN was specifically formed to perform the IP addressing functions which 
were being
    done prior to that time under the InterNIC cooperative agreement.  ARIN’s 
Articles of
    Incorporation 
<https://www.arin.net/about_us/corp_docs/artic_incorp.html#official_html>
    are extremely broad (as is typical of not-for-profit organizations) and 
include purposes
    which could be easily read as "furthering the Internet”.

    At the time of ARIN’s formation, there were two existing Regional Internet 
Registries
    (RIPE NCC, and APNIC), and ARIN’s effectively became the third RIR with its 
region
    being “Rest of World”.   The reason for regional registries was not 
intended for policy
    purposes, but for administrative convenience for those requesting resources 
(such as
    local hours and language support)

/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN



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