> > 1) Justify why we need a heavy bureaucracy such as ARIN for IPv6 > > numbering resources, > > Because the members of ARIN (and the other four RIRs) want it that way. > And because nobody has yet made a serious proposal to ICANN that > would replace ARIN.
Using the organization to justify the need for the organization is circular reasoning. > > 2) Tell me why something like the old pre-depletion pre-ARIN model > > of InterNIC and just handing out prefixes with substantially less > > paper-pushing wouldn't result in a cheaper-to-run RIR. > > Because the ARIN members, who pay most of ARIN's fees, are not > complaining about the level of those fees. This means that they > think the fees are cheap enough, or else they would demand that > the fees be changed. All ARIN fees are set by the ARIN members. Again, ... Anyways, the non-answers to these questions are very illuminating. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.