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
