[ifwp] Re: membership proposal

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Deutsch <peterd at Bunyip.Com>
<snip>
>
>I fully endorse the need for consensus, but can't see how
>any government can agree to handing over any form of power
>to an "non-entity", a diffuse set of entities, or a
>self-policing group.
>


Did you miss the U.S. Government endorsement of ARIN ?

What about the recent casual transfer of assets and rights
from the old APNIC, based in the Seychelles and working
out of borrowed offices in Japan to the new APNIC based
in Australia ? Do you think that happened without a node
from the U.S. Government ?

RIPE may be the only group that is large enough and
diverse enough to operate without much U.S. Government
influence. In my opinion, that is a result of their open and
distributed structure. It is very hard to find one person that
claims to be the only person that speak for RIPE. Many
people do and they have diverse views. RIPE also handles
more than IP addresses. In my opinion that is good because
it helps to broaden a group and make them more aware
of the big picture.


Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation - http://www.unir.com
End-2-End: VPC(Java)---C+ at ---<IPv8>---C+ at ---(Java)VPC
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt
http://www.ddj.com/index/author/idx10133.htm








-------- Logged at  Mon Sep 14 11:10:26 MET DST 1998  ---------