Re: Lightly used IP addresses

If the allocation and reassignment of address space has no policy associated with it, then there's no doubt that most of the registry functions can be automated, and there's no need for the associated policy development process, public policy meetings, travel, conference calls. Quite a bit of savings available there, but the community first has to decide on permanent policy (or lack thereof :-) for that automated world before we can reap the savings.

when the 'community' is defined as those policy wannabes who do the flying, take the cruise junkets, ... this is a self-perpetuating steaming load that is not gonna change. one start would be for arin to have the guts not to pay travel expenses of non-employees/contractors. randy