William "Bill" Herrin
E-Mail: herrin@dirtside.com
3005 Crane Drive
Falls Church, VA 22042-3004
(575) 256-2048
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William "Bill" HerrinE-Mail: herrin@dirtside.com |
3005 Crane Drive |
Greetings! This is my candidate page for the 2012 election for the ARIN Board of Trustees. Please email me any questions you have; I'll respond promptly and unless you ask me to do otherwise I'll also post the question and answer here.
My platform has two planks: Free IPv6 and an Advisory Council that Advises.
ARIN IPv6 addresses should be free. Period. In a down economy its hard enough to start deploying IPv6 without first justifying a purchase order for a couple thousand bucks.
IPv6 addresses should stay free until there's more IPv6 on the public Internet than IPv4. It should stay free until IPv6, not IPv4, underlies the economic engine that is the public Internet. Only then will ARIN be doing all that it can reasonably do to facilitate deployment of IPv6.
ARIN's current Policy Development Process (PDP) assigns the AC an impossible mission: develop policy as a body while also bolstering public participation. An author's policy *is* the words he chose to express it. When the AC changes those words, when it "develops" that policy, it ceases to be the author's policy, invariably diverges from the author's intent and discourages his future participation.
Pardon the hyperbole but a committee of 15 people shouldn't be voting on sentence fragments.
The members of the AC are subject matter experts, well qualified to advise both the board and those individuals who would step up and try to write ARIN policy. An AC which as a body focuses on advice would well serve the community.