John, I will concur with Randy that much of the travel that ARIN funds is excessive. ARIN has a booth at trade shows so i'm going to guess that entire setup with travel costs about $20,000 - 50,000 per show. Why? To convince me to use ARIN for my IP space needs? To convince us to switch to IPv6? I'm not really understanding this, ARIN can hear from the community for free and without spending tens of thousands of dollars. Why can't we save that money and use it to provide tangible services, like providing advisory and implementation assistance for companies wanting to convert to IPv6? We could use it to fund investigations targeting IP space abuse (see my previous post a few minutes back). Best regards, Jeff On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 8:53 AM, John Curran <jcurran@arin.net> wrote:
On Aug 14, 2010, at 12:17 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
thanks for reaffirming that talking to arin is a waste of time.
If you're going to recommend that we not pay for travel for the ARIN AC, I'm going to recommend otherwise and point out that the AC members need to hear from the community, and that's often in person and at the joint ARIN/NANOG meetings, etc. I can't speak to the strength of your arguments for eliminating travel, but I will carry them to the Board as well, if you use the suggestion process.
/John
John Curran President and CEO ARIN
-- Jeffrey Lyon, Leadership Team jeffrey.lyon@blacklotus.net | http://www.blacklotus.net Black Lotus Communications of The IRC Company, Inc. Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/ddosprotection to find out about news, promotions, and (gasp!) system outages which are updated in real time. Platinum sponsor of HostingCon 2010. Come to Austin, TX on July 19 - 21 to find out how to "protect your booty."