[2081] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Thu Mar 14 12:57:51 1996
To: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
cc: perry@piermont.com, "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:35:29 EST."
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Reply-To: perry@piermont.com
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:45:01 -0500
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Paul Ferguson writes:
> Perry, this is a ridiculous comparison. One could also argue that you
> can grow more food,
Can you grow an infinite amount of additional food?
Can you buy more gold than there is on the planet?
Can you make more land than we have?
Can you, as someone unaffiliated with a company, "make" more shares of
the company?
I could also argue that you can use NAT boxes to "make" more IP
addresses.
In any case, so what? Economic allocation of resources is, if
anything, more important when there is significant scarcity.
Perry
