At 09:39 PM 6/8/97 -0500, Jeremy Porter wrote:
And besides, if it weren't for US governement interference, ARIN would already be up and running, and the members could find solutions for this problem. But regardless, the allocation group does not controll the policies of the individual companies, and therefore, if you insist on causing grief for the rest of us, your best bet to to file Anti-trust actions against carriers, like Sprint, Digex, and others that are filtering. (hint, good luck, you will need it.)
I have no intent of causing anyone grief, but rather wish to learn from the NANOG members (save any dogmas) and compete on a level playing field. Our only legal actions have been defensive in nature. Number 1 was against telcos red-lining PRI service to rural Texas. Number 2 regarded an email privacy/ECPA issue raised by the Texas Attorney General through the use of an improperly issued subpoena. We had good luck in both, thank you [8-)) The input of those from NANOG is very valuable, IMHO. I'm looking for the thoughts of NANOG members, not to convince them of anything. Please excuse my thoughts that the NANOG members may have more experience with these issues and that we and other small ISPs can benefit from NANOG input. In fact, the real question we posed at NANOG 10 is: What can be done to properly operate a network with diversity and redundancy without the use of scarce resources, presuming the downside of them not being granted? Regards, Larry Vaden, founder and CEO help-desk 903-813-4500 Internet Texoma, Inc. <http://www.texoma.net> direct 903-870-0365 bringing the real Internet to rural Texomaland fax 903-868-8551 Member ISP/C, TISPA and USIPA pager 903-867-6571