Paul, On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:24 PM, Paul Vixie wrote:
the price of changing what ARIN does is, at a minimum: participation.
Another view is that ARIN's whole and sole reason for being is to provide services to the network operators in the ARIN region. As such, it would be ill-advised for ARIN to change those services without consulting the community that ARIN serves and getting their buy-in. Hopefully, there's a middle ground.
i hear in what you're saying a desire to have a way to impact ARIN's behaviour outside of NRPM edits and perhaps ARIN does need to address this with some new online forum for things which aren't allocation policy but which should still be decided using community input.
Yep. Not sure it should be an ARIN-operated thing (nor am I sure that it shouldn't be), but something a bit more focused on the operation of services ARIN provides than ppml might be helpful. Regards, -drc