[35637] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Wed Mar 14 05:37:16 2001
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:17:35 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <steve@opaltelecom.co.uk>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103140929030.8264-100000@staff.opaltelecom.net>; from steve@opaltelecom.co.uk on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 09:41:00AM +0000
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> You dont have to use ARIN/RIPE allocated IPs on your network, you can pick
> your own (non-RFC1918) addresses just dont advertise them, but again what
> good is that to users on my network who wont be able to see the sites.
>
> Look: "Internet" its single, not plural that would be "Internets" there
> are certain uniquenesses which must be maintained if you want all users on
> "The Internet" to receive the same results no matter who's network they
> are on.
Hrm. Somewhere along the line I remember the Internet being defined
as a bunch of networks cooperating in order to exchange information.
When did that change? :-)
I'll be happy when more companies start to see that they canactually
make money by fostering internet growth rather than making money by
abusing internet growth.
Adrian
--
Adrian Chadd "The fact you can download a 100 megabyte file
<adrian@creative.net.au> from half way around the world should be viewed
as an accident and not a right."
-- Adrian Chadd and Bill Fumerola
