[2077] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nelson@crynwr.com)
Thu Mar 14 12:16:30 1996
From: nelson@crynwr.com
Date: 14 Mar 1996 17:01:08 GMT
To: "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199603141641.IAA08561@lint.cisco.com>
Paul Ferguson writes:
> I'm of the opinion that this approach is seriously flawed, in that
> it almost encourages those entities with deep pockets to hoard
> address space.
How? I've explained why it can't happen -- now you explain how it
could happen (and I'll explain how you're wrong, and you'll explain
how I'm wrong, and Paul Vixie will flame us both).
> Any amount of fairness is removed from the equation altogether.
Oh? And @Home getting a humongo allocation is fair? Essentially
what you're saying is that you think addresses should be allocated by
political power. And who gets them then? The politically powerful.
That's fair?
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/~nelson
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