Hi, On Sat, Jun 03, 2017 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> if anything, the existing SWIP rules strengthened, rather than > diluted, and, more importantly, would like to see them actually > enforced someday. By whom? "Enforcement" implies that there is some authority that really can make such things happen. The Internet Cops. The ITU. "Law enforcement", whoever that is. Someone. I"n my opinion, it is fortunate for us that we do not have such a body. What we have are registries whose ability to "enforce" anything largely depends on the interests of the enforced-upon, so that making the Internet work in our shared and common interest is the real test of the value of these policies. I don't really care about the proposed policy one way or another -- I just don't feel that strongly about it -- but one needs to be from some other logically-possible world to imagine that there is any hope of strengthening the SWIP rules, much less "enforcing" them. "Enforcement" implies a power ARIN (and the other RIRs, for that matter) does not actually have. For the Internet does not allow for such a locus of control, and if we tried to make it into a thing that did allow for it we would find we no longer had an Internet. Best regards, A -- Andrew Sullivan [email protected] _______________________________________________ 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.
