[Gllug] The Adventures of Team ARIN

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At first it was Google introducing Chrome using a comic, now Arin have 
decided to follow the same path. Is this the best way to push IPv6? If 
comics are your thing, this may be of some interest even if the UK is in 
RIPE territory:-

Regards,
=dn


The Adventures of Team ARIN
Introduction

Welcome to the world of Team ARIN! We hope you find these publications 
educational and entertaining. Team ARIN is a fictionalized view of the 
American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), its processes, and the 
whole concept of Internet governance. Though our heroes are fictional, 
the issues they face are very real.

Team ARIN is a group of superheroes that represent accessibility, 
responsibility, information, and neutrality; four of the guiding 
principles for Internet governance and operation. ARIN and its community 
strive to work under these principles. Technical information describing 
how Regional Internet Registries allocate Internet numberresources, like 
IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, is freely available on websites across the 
Internet. By presenting this information in a fun and informal way, we 
hope to give you a new perspective on important technical facts and the 
principles under which ARIN operates. Our approach to our duty as a 
Regional Internet Registry is defined in our mission statement:

     "Applying the principles of stewardship, ARIN, a nonprofit 
corporation, allocates Internet Protocol resources; develops 
consensus-based policies; and facilitates the advancement of the 
Internet through information and educational outreach."

Some liberties are taken in order to present this information in comic 
book style, but the aspects of the story that illustrate how ARIN and 
its community work are taken directly from technical documents, like 
ARIN's Policy Development Process, and based on the ideals and roles 
described in multiple RFCs.

Team ARIN is not a typical group of superheroes -- they do not battle a 
literal enemy directly. Instead they use their powers to educate the 
public and facilitate community participation in the existing open, 
transparent, bottom-up policy process. Team ARIN presents the true 
mission of the "real" team ARIN, as we facilitate the open and 
transparent policy process, technical discussions, and act as an 
informational resource for the community.

We hope you will read and enjoy the adventures of Team ARIN!
The Adventures of Team ARIN (28 June 2009)
https://www.arin.net/knowledge/comic.html

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