15 Mar
2001
15 Mar
'01
9:09 a.m.
At 23:39 14/03/01 -0800, Stephen Stuart wrote:
Do you see many scandals around people who own cool IP addresses? :)
IIRC, there was an "issue" around the assignment of 16.1.16.1; I don't think lawyers had been invented back then, so the scope of the scandal remained relatively small.
Lets see, the US gov't mandated phone number portability. How long will it be before they mandate IP address portability? Then everyone will want their /32 to be portable. Even Junipers handling of 2.4M prefixes: http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?site=testing&doc_id=4009&page_number=10 will begin to buckle. -Hank
(The coolness factor was the binary representation, of course.)
Stephen