[ripe-167] Impressions brought from Moscow meeting

On Thu, 19 Feb 1998, Sergey A. Mukhin wrote:

> First, now we ( ISPs ) have a pretty simple dilemma: A) we ( I mean the
> Association ) takes the control or B) our government does it.
> Do you need any more comments ?

	Yep.  What has Ukraine (and ISP from here) to do with
	your, Russian goverment?  We have ours, thank you.

> Nope. Here you are wrong. RIPN had monopolized RU. Internic had monopolized
> COM, NET, ORG and EDU. RIPE had monopolized a big block of IP address space.
> God had monopolized the Universe. How far it is possible to get thinking that way ?

	We can and agree to live with the current state
	of affairs. Why try to repair
	something not recognized as "broken" by anyone but you?

P.S. Please take my sincere apologies, I already decided to stop
     this discussion here, but couldn't resist, this message from
     Moscow was so bright and remarkably clear. :)

     Now I'm shutting up promptly... :))

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Best regards,
Andrew Stesin

nic-hdl: ST73-RIPE