On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:59:36PM -0700, David R. Conrad wrote:
Karl,
They have all of the legal weight of a Jim Flem-o-gram. Then so does ARIN's and the IANA's ability to control and delegate addresses.
No. ARIN (et al) and the IANA have the ability to control/delegate addresses because by and large, the people who use the Internet, in particular, Internet service providers, mutually agree they have that ability.
That's nice David. What you're saying then is that any group of people can get together, and effectively exert monopoly, oligopoly, or otherwise create control structures in a cartel-like environment over the Internet. Uh, no. Not in the US anyway.
If you do not like these policies, your argument is with the Internet service provider community, which strangely enough, now is explicitly in a position to modify those policies.
Actually, no, they are not. I believe that it is fair to say that the majority of ISPs do not support these policies. -- -- Karl Denninger (karl@denninger.net) http://www.mcs.net/~karl I ain't even *authorized* to speak for anyone other than myself, so give up now on trying to associate my words with any particular organization.