[2084] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Thu Mar 14 13:10:31 1996
To: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
cc: "'bmanning@ISI.EDU'" <bmanning@isi.edu>, "dorian@cic.net" <dorian@cic.net>,
"nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>,
"nic-registry@internic.net" <nic-registry@internic.net>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 14 Mar 1996 09:25:32 CST."
<01BB1188.31F22D80@webster.unety.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 12:55:05 -0500
From: "Jeff Young" <young@mci.net>
the phone system is global as well, i guess the us government should
not be allowed to govern it? i'd say your safe until a smart senate
staffer actually sits down to explain some of the issues to his boss
who picks up the pole and starts to wave the flag...
Jeff Young
young@mci.net
>
> No matter what happens...the following can not continue...
>
> 1. One person at the InterNIC playing Jesus Christ with the IP addresses...
> 2. One person at IANA playing God the Father with IP addresses...
> 3. Network Solutions, Inc. (and SAIC) competing against ISPs...
> 4. Selected ISPs being given huge blocks of the address space...
>
> There has to be a democratic process...of the people, for the people and by the people...
>
> ...not just for John, Paul, George and Ringo....even if John is the Pope...
>
> Jim Fleming
> Naperville, IL
>
>
> P.S. Where has IANA documented the following allocation....???
>
> $ whois NETBLK-ATHOME
> @Home (NETBLK-ATHOME)
> 385 Ravendale Drive
> Mountain View, CA 94043
>
> Netname: ATHOME
> Netblock: 24.0.0.0 - 24.3.255.0
>
> Coordinator:
> Mockapetris, Paul V. (PM1) pvm@HOME.NET
> 415-944-7200 415-944-7221 (FAX) 415-944-8501
>
> Domain System inverse mapping provided by:
>
> TELLER.HOME.NET 206.15.25.1
> NS1.GEO.NET 192.231.42.2
>
> Record last updated on 24-Jan-96.
>
> The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
> (Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
> Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.
>
> ----------
> From: bmanning@ISI.EDU[SMTP:bmanning@ISI.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 1996 10:51 PM
> To: Jim Fleming
> Cc: dorian@cic.net; kovar@NDA.COM; com-priv@psi.com; jfbb@atmnet.net; nanog@merit.edu; nathan@netrail.net; nic-registry@internic.net
> Subject: Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
>
> >
> >
> > Here are some people that might be interested in these issues...
> >
> > Jim Fleming
> > Naperville, IL
> >
> > @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> > There always will be disadvantages of being small. This is true in every
> > market.
> >
> > > Do you truly believe there is no way to avoid the forced renumbering
> > > problem for the smaller ISPs?
> >
> > There is no way to avoid renumbering. Every other plausible proposal I've
> > seen have been renumbering under a different guise.
> >
> > -dorian
> >
>
> Jim, old buddy, you forgot the European Union delegates, South
> America, Africa, CIS, China and the AP nations. Better punt the
> whole darn thing right to the UN right now. Since when did the
> global internet get to be regulated by the US government?
>
> --
> --bill
>
>
>
