[57602] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sigma@smx.pair.com)
Mon Apr 14 18:26:22 2003
From: sigma@smx.pair.com
In-Reply-To: <16027.11983.1796.954274@biohazard.demon.algx.net> from Dave Israel at "Apr 14, 3 05:57:34 pm"
To: nanog@merit.edu
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:25:47 -0400 (EDT)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Who said they would just sit on it? Why not make the Internet
> now "The Internet, Brought To You By Company X?" You need Company
> X's address space, so you have to provide Company X's services on
> Company X's operating system?
This is exactly the biggest problem. It's naive to imagine that this
wouldn't happen to some extent. In the real world, there are a number of
Company X's who don't play nice.
> It's this kind of thing that keeps areas of the radio spectrum
> licensed by the government.
Although radio spectrum is more divisible than we used to think.
Kevin
