[2082] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Thu Mar 14 12:58:07 1996
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:35:29 -0500
To: perry@piermont.com
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>
At 10:51 AM 3/14/96 -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>
>"David R. Conrad" writes:
>> Your proposal is? If you say charging for address space, please
>> explain what would stop deep pocket companies from buying up all the
>> address space?
>
>If you start charging for food, what would stop deep pocket companies
>from buying up all the food?
>
>If you start charging rent for apartments, what would stop deep pocket
>companies from renting all the apartments?
>
Perry, this is a ridiculous comparison. One could also argue that you
can grow more food, and that you could build more apartments. Obviously,
you can do neither with a finite address sapce.
- paul
