As promised, here is my list of agenda items I believe are important for ARIN to "fix" within the immediate timeframe. All of these have been previously posted to the Advisory Council mailing list by myself. This is on the general topic of governance and transparency. My next message will be my repost on the topics of operational policy (ie: who can get PI address space, what justification is required, etc). I am expanding the discussion list to NANOG and the ARIN Members mailing lists. Please post comments PUBLICALLY, or if you feel you cannot do so without "cloaking" yourself, through someone else (who you trust to strip the attribution). High Level TOPIC #1 - Governance of ARIN ======================================== 1. Modification of the bylaws to provide for removal of trustees and officers by vote of the membership (currently lacking). I would like to recommend that the AC be required to carry a motion to be put to the membership for such an action, which then requires a vote by the membership within 30 days. Majority consent of the membership constitutes removal. (The "AC filter" is there to prevent someone from "buying" the membership - by getting 50 memberships, for example, and then using that to "take over" the board). 2. Modification of the bylaws to provide for the removal of AC members by direct membership vote. Procedure to be a majority consensus of the membership, initiated by the members directly. A simple majority of all members may remove an AC member by vote through this procedure. 3. The motion currently on the table from the last BoT meeting to give Kim Hubbard a vote as a Trustee should be, IMHO, defeated. This repairs the complete lack of accountability currently present in the bylaws. It is currently impossible for the members or the AC to remove a trustee or officer of the corporation; this is contrary to any other corporation I have ever worked for; the shareholders (who are, in this case, the membership - since the members fund the operation) always have the right to remove the board and, indirectly, the officers (by firing the board and replacing it). High Level Topic #2 - Accountability of Decisions made by ARIN ============================================================== 1. Modification of the bylaws to provide that the following acts are reportable to the public via web dissemination: a. All "executive decisions" made by ARIN's President and Board of Trustees outside of a regular meeting which affect one or more person(s) or organization(s). Exempt are statuatory privileged decisions (ie: employment related issues) ONLY. b. All "ex officio" actions taken by the Board of Trustees, including Board approval of any action taken or contemplated by a corporate officer. c. All ARIN Board and AC meeting minutes must be published within 7 days of the meeting or other administrative action which took place. d. (a) through (c) are retroactive to the formation of ARIN, and all documentation related to same are to be produced within 7 days following passage. 2. Modification of the bylaws to provide that the following items are considered to be publically reportable in the performance of ARIN's duties as a public trustee: a. All incoming address allocation requests. b. All document production requests made by ARIN persuant to (a), identifying the type of request, the time given for response, the scope and purpose of the request. c. The outcome of the allocation request, whether granted or turned down. d. An accounting of the amount of manpower used in processing the request (calculated in man/hours). (a) through (d) are to be reported within 7 days of closure of each request, and ARIN should produce a report weekly showing the number of requests currently in queue, new arrivals during that period, and dispositions. e. All actions taken by ARIN, its officers, staff members, or any individual under color of authority of ARIN in an attempt to reclaim, repossess, or interfere in any way with the peaceful enjoyment of address space held by entities which were granted prior to the adoption of RFC2008 (October 1996). These changes will fix the transparency problems which I believe exist today within the structure of ARIN. You have the other two (the address allocation policy changes and pricing changes) as well. Would you like me to write these up formally? -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost