[57610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Apr 14 21:23:52 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:22:54 -0700
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
To: Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org>, davei@algx.net
Cc: Kris Foster <Kris.Foster@telus.com>,
Brandon Ross <bross@sockeye.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <02a201c302db$c6965460$93b58742@ssprunk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Sorry, but, the government does _NOT_ auction spectrum space off to the
highest bidder in all cases. If they did, amateur radio would be dead,
as would FRS, CB, and probably a lot of the part 15 allocations.
Owen
>> It's this kind of thing that keeps areas of the radio spectrum
>> licensed by the government.
>
> And the govt licenses that spectrum to the highest bidder, plus allows
> owners to sell spectrum to each other as assets. Pretending the RIRs are
> even remotely similar is disingenuous.
>
> S
>
> Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
> CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
>
