[58091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Market-based address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Wed Apr 30 17:15:26 2003
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: Bill Nickless <nickless@mcs.anl.gov>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2003 15:54:50 CDT."
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Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 17:14:07 -0400
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In message <5.1.1.6.2.20030430155224.039bbde8@pop.mcs.anl.gov>, Bill Nickless w
rites:
>At 04:45 PM 4/30/2003 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>>See http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/piara/index.html for a
>>paper on the subject. (We held a BoF at the IETF many years ago; there
>>was sufficient pushback that we didn't pursue the question.)
>
>I just *knew* such an obvious idea couldn't have been mine alone. :-)
>
>When did you present your paper? The last reference I see is 1996.
I believe that that's right. It was at the Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference.
>
>What sort of pushback did you receive? Perhaps the experience of the past
>few years might suggest revisiting the question?
>
Apart from the evil notion of money polluting the Internet -- this was
1996, as I said -- I think I'll refer you to the archive that David
Conrad mentioned. It's been a long time, and I don't remember all the
details.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)
