[2112] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Oberman)
Fri Mar 15 11:25:20 1996
To: perry@piermont.com
Cc: Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>, "'NANOG List'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Mar 96 00:40:24 EST."
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 08:08:18 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@nersc.gov>
> Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 00:40:24 -0500
> From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
>
> I'm arguing that they haven't ever really existed, except with
> government intervention to create them.
Guess this you could claim "government intervention" for most
anything, but I suggest you read up on Carnagie Steel, Standard Oil,
and a few others at the turn of the century.
And, if you want to claim that these were local, go out and buy a
diamond. While there are a few exceptions, DuBeers controlled the
world's diamond market totally until the past decade and still could
easily destroy the worlds diamond market in a day.
Yes, monopolies have and continue to exist. (A monopoly on IPv4
address space is very improbable and would certainly be short-lived,
though!)
R. Kevin Oberman
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
National Energy Research Supercomputer Center (NERSC)
EMAIL: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 422-6955
