[governance] [At-Large] The Internet as we know it is dead

[John Curran]

On Sep 4, 2013, at 2:16 PM, JFC Morfin <jefsey at jefsey.com> wrote:

> Please, convince me that the OpenStand/ARIN/ICANN statUS-quo, including your market monopoly, addresses and/or does not block the internet intelligent-users' needs and desired practices, and that ARIN is not involved what so ever in router control or ICANN in 


JFC -

I can only speak for ARIN, and alas I cannot reassure you on all of your 
concerns due to the very nature of having a unique association between 
addresses and users.   In particular, if you want to have a global registry
where only one party is associated with each IP address block, then the
policies and practices of the coordinated IP number registry most certainly 
can impact the "intelligent-users' needs and desired practices"

At ARIN, there is a small number of mitigating measures in place to help 
reduce the possibility of unreasonable impacts; these include requirements 
for an open and transparent policy development process, requirements for 
policy to support fair and impartial number management, and having oversight 
via an elected board.  Under such circumstances, the intelligent-users best 
defense is to actively participate in the number policy development process 
(e.g.<https://www.arin.net/participate/how_to_participate.html>)

With respect to "router control", this is something that ARIN is not engaged
in, nor do we foresee being engaged in same.  Various ISPs make use of 
Internet number registry data in deciding how they'll assemble their routing 
tables (e.g. filters), but that is a practice which varies among providers based
on their own preferences.

FYI,
/John

John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN



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