[20125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Denninger)
Mon Oct 5 22:17:37 1998
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 21:03:16 -0500
From: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>
To: "David R. Conrad" <David_Conrad@isc.org>
Cc: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199810052200.PAA15673@bb.rc.vix.com>; from David R. Conrad on Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:59:36PM -0700
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:59:36PM -0700, David R. Conrad wrote:
> Karl,
>
> >> They have all of the legal weight of a Jim Flem-o-gram.
> >Then so does ARIN's and the IANA's ability to control and delegate addresses.
>
> No. ARIN (et al) and the IANA have the ability to control/delegate
> addresses because by and large, the people who use the Internet, in
> particular, Internet service providers, mutually agree they have that
> ability.
That's nice David.
What you're saying then is that any group of people can get together,
and effectively exert monopoly, oligopoly, or otherwise create control
structures in a cartel-like environment over the Internet.
Uh, no. Not in the US anyway.
> If you do not like these policies, your argument is
> with the Internet service provider community, which strangely enough, now
> is explicitly in a position to modify those policies.
Actually, no, they are not. I believe that it is fair to say that the
majority of ISPs do not support these policies.
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