[128697] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 600 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine)
Sat Aug 14 12:22:08 2010
Date: 14 Aug 2010 12:22:00 -0400
From: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinFAmYwCNre+Xaehz0TFhE2KYqMMmgxnT2BH5Gk@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> Convincingly said here on an ISP mailing list. But what about the
> folks who were denied address assignments by ARIN policies over the
> last 15 years? Denied them based on the fiction that ISPs didn't own
> IP addresses, that they were merely holding the addresses in trust for
> the public they serve. ...
I dunno. What was New York's responsibility in the 1790s to guys who
didn't join the army because they had to stay home and take care of their
widowed mother and six younger sisters?
I wouldn't for a moment claim that IPv4 space was a way that was uniformly
fair or wise or close to ideal. But I don't think you're going to have
much luck imposing fairness and wisdom retroactively on people who've
already got the space.
R's,
John
