> If the allocation and reassignment of address space has no policy > associated with it, then there's no doubt that most of the registry > functions can be automated, and there's no need for the associated > policy development process, public policy meetings, travel, conference > calls. Quite a bit of savings available there, but the community > first has to decide on permanent policy (or lack thereof :-) for that > automated world before we can reap the savings.
when the 'community' is defined as those policy wannabes who do the flying, take the cruise junkets, ... this is a self-perpetuating steaming load that is not gonna change. one start would be for arin to have the guts not to pay travel expenses of non-employees/contractors. randy
