[2095] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
???@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Sheppard)
Thu Mar 14 15:39:47 1996
From: doug@pbi.net (Doug Sheppard)
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:47:03 -0800
In-Reply-To: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
"Re: Allocation of IP Addresses" (Mar 14, 12:45)
To: perry@piermont.com, Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>
>
> Can you grow an infinite amount of additional food?
Yes, you can. That is how people have been able to eat since
the beginning of time.
> Can you buy more gold than there is on the planet?
We don't know exactly how much gold there is on the planet.
That's why we still mine it.
>
> Can you make more land than we have?
Sure, keep on stacking.
The point of all this debate from what I see is its dangerous to give up an
independent organization which allocates addresses based on need, and go with a
cash-on-delivery method. Look whats happening with people buying up domain
names just to make a buck reselling them to suckers! These same people would
attempt to do the same with addresses.
-doug
