Re: Why does Sprint have address filters again?

[madlion <madlion () justin net>]

On Sat, 30 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote:

> On Sat, May 30, 1998 at 12:59:27PM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > > 5. One is financed by the government out of your taxes and is merely an
> > > accounting formality much like a customer ID number. The other is funded
> > > by a corporation that has no government funding and must support itself
> > > not unlike most businesses and the number is a critical infrastructure
> > > identifier something like an NPA-NXX.
> >
> > Technically, the USF is an industry-funded fund (sic? redundant). The SLC
> > is an independent not-for-profit entity (gosh sounds like ARIN).  The
> > Universal Service Administrative Company, a subsidary of NECA collects
> > the USF fees and distributes them to the various funds. The money does
> > not come from the US Treasury, nor even 'taxpayers.'  The USF money comes
> > from subscribers of interstate telecommunications services, much like the
> > money for ARIN comes from the subscribers of IP addresses and AS numbers.
> >
> > I couldn't find a budget on the ARIN website; but I wouldn't be pointing
> > to the SLC as an example of a well-run organization.  Even ARIN at its
> > worst doesn't match the SLC for insanity.  (Yes, Kim that was a compliment).
> > Maybe if the president of ARIN was paid $300,000/year like the president
> > of the SLC, things would be different.
> > -- 
> > Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
> >   Affiliation given for identification not representation
>
> What is ARIN's Presidential salary?
>
> We don't know, because to date ARIN has refused to release that information
> (the salaries of the organization's officers).

I thought ARIN budget with cost for salaries was public record.  Learned
something new today.. 

-Mo


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