neutrality and nat

>> an important part of the rirs' job is information/education.  trying
>> to pretend that nats don't exist is not realistic.  trying to explain
>> the trade-off would be useful.  the hard part would be doing so usefully
>> without getting into a document mire.
> 
> I disagree. The RIRs jobs (certainly in the case of RIPE) should be the
> (fair) management of those resources they are responsible for - IPs and ASes
> etc.
> 
> Information / Education should be functions iff they do not impact on the
> primary function and are acheived at close to zero cost - i.e. self funding.

an amazingly naive view of what actually happens at a rir.  if that was
anything like the case, all that would be needed would be a web form or
two.  the fact is that each of the N thousand applicants had to be walked
through it all.  and then, when a new employee came in at the LIR, it had
to all happen again.  there is a reason hostmasters burn out, and it ain't
from pushing "accept the web form" buttons.

randy