----- Original Message Follows ----- From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 08:46:11PM -0400, Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote

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to dissect a core dump, or how BGP works, but who at the same time are not interested in reading the ARIN policy manual before making a request for resources.

I may be very special but I find learning a new programming language or a new protocol much more fun than reading thick and boring policy documents.

Have you read the ARIN info regarding IPv4 allocations? If so, you're calling a few pages 'thick'. scott