Objection: RE: [admin] Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

[<michael.dillon () bt com>]

> Folks, we'd like to ask that this thread die a quick and 
> painful death. It's gone off topic and it seems to have run 
> whatever short course that it tried. 

I agree.

> While what Europe does 
> is interesting to us as network operators, this is European 
> policy and off topic for NANOG.

Whoa there! You need to re-read the first line of the NANOG
mission statement

  The purpose of NANOG is to provide forums in the North American
  region for education and the sharing of knowledge for the
  Internet operations community. 

In other words, the NA part of NANOG refers to the location of
the forums, *NOT* the scope of the discussions. The Internet
operations community is global in scope and it is natural for
our discussions to also be global in scope. 

Since many North American network operators have infrastructure
in Europe (PoPs, colocated servers) they have to be aware of
uniquely European Internet issues.

And when it comes to solving a domestic problem, nothing puts
things in perspective more than comparing how others approach
the problem.

--Michael Dillon