[LAC-Discuss] Will ARIN Establish a Gatekeeper?

Dev devtee at gmail.com
Fri May 9 01:15:34 EDT 2008


Spotted on Milton' Mueller's blog at
http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2008/5/9/3682004.html

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via IGP Blog by Milton Mueller on 5/8/08 If you’re reading this within
an hour after it was posted, you’ve got about 17 hours to comment on an
important change being proposed at ARIN, the manager of Internet
Protocol addresses for the North American region. ARIN is proposing a
new “Policy Development Process.” (Sound familiar?) A step by step
description of the proposal can be found here. The essence of the
change is that the ARIN Advisory Council would manage and dispose of
all policy proposals. The new PDP proposal is an example of the
increasing formalization of IP address policy making. This trend, which
is probably inevitable, will continue. Everyone interested in Internet
governance needs to understand that and be attuned to the consequences.
ARIN’s Advisory Council will become more of a gatekeeper for policy
proposals.
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