40 Acres and a Mule were promised to every slave freed in the south by General Grant. It was later rescinded. 600 acres was promised to non-landowning general militia soldiers after the Revolutionary war. You're only off by ~100 years. Andrew On 8/14/2010 1:27 PM, Jimi Thompson wrote:
It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI
On 8/14/10 11:22 AM, "John R. Levine"<johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
Convincingly said here on an ISP mailing list. But what about the folks who were denied address assignments by ARIN policies over the last 15 years? Denied them based on the fiction that ISPs didn't own IP addresses, that they were merely holding the addresses in trust for the public they serve. ... I dunno. What was New York's responsibility in the 1790s to guys who didn't join the army because they had to stay home and take care of their widowed mother and six younger sisters?
I wouldn't for a moment claim that IPv4 space was a way that was uniformly fair or wise or close to ideal. But I don't think you're going to have much luck imposing fairness and wisdom retroactively on people who've already got the space.
R's, John