[128699] in North American Network Operators' Group
40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimi Thompson)
Sat Aug 14 13:26:14 2010
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 12:27:14 -0500
From: Jimi Thompson <jimi.thompson@gmail.com>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>,
William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1008141147440.44463@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI
On 8/14/10 11:22 AM, "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>> 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
>
