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Re: [NIC-960209.1757] Routing Problem (fwd)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mike)
Mon Feb 12 13:34:21 1996

Date: Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:41:36 -0500 (EST)
From: mike <mn@tremere.ios.com>
To: Robert Du Gaue <rdugaue@calweb.com>
cc: William Allen Simpson <bsimpson@morningstar.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960211225545.20912A-100000@web1.calweb.com>

On Sun, 11 Feb 1996, Robert Du Gaue wrote:

> > No circularity about it.  First, you need customers.  Second, if you
> > already have enough customers, you get your own IP space.
> > 
> > Until then, you get a small chunk out of somebody else's bigger IP space.
> 
> Yeah right. You try that with a growing business. Then when you finally
> get enough users and corporate customers to 'justify' your own 64block and
> then give them the news that their entire networks will now need to be
> reconfigured how do you think they'll react. If I was that big, the amount
> of money it would cost me and my end-users would not be trivial. 

I had posted this ridicularity long time ago. As long as the Internic is 
not legally controlled, there will be no help. It is still a community of 
individuals running the show, without any legal supervision, nor any way 
of legal recourse.

Mike



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