[128707] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Kirch)
Sat Aug 14 18:29:07 2010
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:28:41 -0400
From: Andrew Kirch <trelane@trelane.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <C88C3C22.CDC3%jimi.thompson@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
40 Acres and a Mule were promised to every slave freed in the south by
General Grant. It was later rescinded. 600 acres was promised to
non-landowning general militia soldiers after the Revolutionary war.
You're only off by ~100 years.
Andrew
On 8/14/2010 1:27 PM, Jimi Thompson wrote:
> 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
>>
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