Re: [sig-policy] Article of possible interest to the community
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> Mueller was making judgements when he said "ARIN is nervous" or "ARIN is protecting its interests."
> You protest too much when you call them factual errors and bemoan the journalistic standards of an opinion blog.
You are somewhat correct, in that I had inadvertently considered the Internet Governance
Project blog to be part of an academic endeavor with corresponding practices. Indeed, I
was recently informed otherwise, much to my surprise.
> Mueller knows about the letter from ARIN to ICANN but judges it to be resistance-by-delay. You judge it as some kind of proof that ARIN is not nervous. Neither judgement rises to the level of fact.
Interesting... By asking for community discussion before changing the structure of the
global Internet number registry system, ARIN is engaging in "resistance-by-delay"? If
indeed there is some other way to engage in responsible Internet governance and make
such a change without first having community discussions about them, please educate us.
> I empathize with Prof. Mueller when his ideas are met with resistance at ARIN. Whereas he (and I) are trying to protect the integrity of the registration function by removing outdated and unnecessary needs requirements for transfers, we are both vociferously resisted by the damsel we are trying to rescue.
You are likely to referring to the ARIN community with regards to your proposals to
change the registration function, and I cannot help you there, you (and Mr. Mueller)
must advocate your ideas on their own merits.
> I think we both understand this is a natural product of the byplay of a multi-stakeholder governed system, maybe you can understand the frustration we feel being cast as enemies of a system we are trying to save, and allow that understanding to provide more tolerance of the judgements of others.
I do not cast anyone as "enemies of the system", and both welcome and encourage
your participation in the process. However, If you should find fault with ARIN, then
I will either thank you & starting fixing it, or explain why we're doing what we're doing.
In Mr. Mueller's case, he already knew exactly why and simply chose to ignore it.
As the APNIC meeting is coming up and that involves quite a bit of policy discussion
on this list, I'll be cc'ing future replies to PPML instead (as this thread is regarding
fabrications against ARIN.)
Thanks!
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN