[2062] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Interesting AP Article
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Rubin)
Thu Mar 14 02:34:04 1996
From: Steve Rubin <ser@aimnet.net>
To: JimFleming@unety.net (Jim Fleming)
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 23:35:19 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <01BB1123.620A7280@webster.unety.net> from "Jim Fleming" at Mar 13, 96 09:23:53 pm
> IP addresses are very valuable..."routable" IP addresses
> are even more valuable...routability is determined by other
> Internet participants being willing to route your traffic...if
> you have a nicely aggregated block of addresses then you
> are OK...if not, then you are in trouble...
>
Well, I am sure the InterNIC would be more than willing to trade a small,
fully utilized block for a larger block with room to grow. But I won't
mention the R word here :)
> ISPs will have to start "seizing" blocks of addresses from
> IANA and taking over allocation responsibility to survive...
> as you can read between the lines on http://www.netsol.com
> no one is going to insure that your business survives...
>
Well, I doubt this will happen any time soon. Remember what happened to
the person who was announcing 208/8.
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