[139045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Mar 25 15:08:03 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <m239mcpht1.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 12:05:22 -0700
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:08 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>>>> They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All
>>>> receipt of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a
>>>> transfer, is needs-based. Anything else would be removing a =
critical
>>>> resource from use.
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute
>> Thank you Randy. Give Canute a community-developed set of marching
>> orders, and make the ocean a little more pliable and you might have=20=
>> something there.
>=20
> at some point, the arin policy wonk weenies will face reality. or =
not.
> it really makes little difference. =20
>=20
> i don't particularly like the reality either, but i find it easier and
> more productive to align my actions and how i spend my time. not a =
lot
> of high paying jobs pushing water uphill.
>=20
> randy
At some point we will see which reality actually pans out. Both the =
perspective
of we "ARIN Policy wonk weenies" as Randy so kindly calls us, and, =
Randy's
perspective are speculations about future events. I think both are =
probably equally
based in reality based on different sets of experiences.
Since my reality has the potential to preserve many good aspects of the =
internet,
I hope it turns out that Randy is the one who is wrong.
Owen
