On Sunday, March 09, 1997 6:16 PM, Benjamin Inman Vaughn[SMTP:sedriss@Prophet-indy.org] wrote: @ @ Less ARIN and NIC are run by the principles Adam Smith described @ in the early Nineteenth Century. I don't know, maybe Address assignment is @ controlled by the unseen hand of god. @ @ The beginning and end of it is that selling address space is @ against RFC's and ethics, and it should be left at that. @ You might want to be more specific when you use the term... ..."address space"... Do you mean...? IPv4 address space ? IPv6 address space ? IPv8 address space ? How do you describe the current status of the address spaces below ? 1. On loan ? 2. Homesteading ? 3. Owned ? 4. Unused ? 5. U.S. Government Property ? 6. Grandfathered ? 7. Not part of the Real World(tm) ? 8. _________________ (other) FL 12.0.0.0 AT&T ITS (NET-ATT) CA 13.0.0.0 Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (NET-XEROX-NET) CA 14.0.0.0 Public Data Network (NET-PDN) CA 15.0.0.0 Hewlett-Packard Company (NET-HP-INTERNET) CA 16.0.0.0 Digital Equipment Corporation (NET-DEC-INTERNET) CA 17.0.0.0 Apple Computer, Inc. (NET-APPLE-WWNET) MA 18.0.0.0 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (NET-MIT-TEMP) MI 19.0.0.0 Ford Motor Company (NET-FINET) VA 20.0.0.0 Computer Sciences Corporation (NET-CSC) VA 21.0.0.0 DDN-RVN (NET-DDN-RVN) DC 22.0.0.0 Defense Information Systems Agency (NET-DISNET) CA 23.0.0.0 IANA (NET-DDN-TC-NET) CA 24.0.0.0 @Home Network (NETBLK-ATHOME) ATHOME 24.0.0.0 - 24.3.255.0 -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)