Do you: 1) want IRR services, and if so, with what features? 2) believe IRR services should be provided by ARIN?
the irr is slightly useful today. so, iff it is cheap and easy, arin providing an open and free instance is a public good. again, iff it is easy and cheap. and please do not waste time trying to 'fix' the irr, sad to say it's trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
I'm not suggesting that ARIN undertake a large and complex effort to solve a bunch of issues with IRR.
jeff, i do not disagree that running an irr instance with only mail-from is soooo 1980s. and, as mans points out, there is free software out there to do it (i recommend irrd). but i do not see good cause for arin to spend anything non-trivial to fix a problem in an irr instance which is not used very much. i.e. better to drop it than to spend non-trivial money to modernize it. but more to the point, by 'fix' it, i did not mean modernizing the auth method set. i meant the content, syntax and semantics. randy