On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:05 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is needs-based. Anything else would be removing a critical resource from use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute Thank you Randy. Give Canute a community-developed set of marching orders, and make the ocean a little more pliable and you might have something there.
at some point, the arin policy wonk weenies will face reality. or not. it really makes little difference.
i don't particularly like the reality either, but i find it easier and more productive to align my actions and how i spend my time. not a lot of high paying jobs pushing water uphill.
randy
At some point we will see which reality actually pans out. Both the perspective of we "ARIN Policy wonk weenies" as Randy so kindly calls us, and, Randy's perspective are speculations about future events. I think both are probably equally based in reality based on different sets of experiences.
Since my reality has the potential to preserve many good aspects of the internet, I hope it turns out that Randy is the one who is wrong.
Owen
Or possibly, if we can not sort this on our own and set a good precedent (for ARIN and the other registries as well) that we can sort this out ourselves in a way that is agreeable and beneficial to all stakeholders - we will just be adding another piece of lumber onto the ready-to-light bonfire that government needs to step in somehow? - Mike