Allocation of IP Addresses

Thu Mar 14 15:25:32 UTC 1996

The UN is fine with me...

No matter what happens...the following can not continue...

	1. One person at the InterNIC playing Jesus Christ with the IP addresses...
	2. One person at IANA playing God the Father with IP addresses...
	3. Network Solutions, Inc. (and SAIC) competing against ISPs...
	4. Selected ISPs being given huge blocks of the address space...

There has to be a democratic process...of the people, for the people and by the people...

...not just for John, Paul, George and Ringo....even if John is the Pope...

Jim Fleming
Naperville, IL

P.S. Where has IANA documented the following allocation....???

$ whois NETBLK-ATHOME
@Home (NETBLK-ATHOME)
   385 Ravendale Drive
   Mountain View, CA 94043

   Netname: ATHOME
   Netblock: 24.0.0.0 - 24.3.255.0

   Coordinator:
      Mockapetris, Paul V.  (PM1)  pvm at HOME.NET
      415-944-7200 415-944-7221 (FAX) 415-944-8501

   Domain System inverse mapping provided by:

   TELLER.HOME.NET              206.15.25.1
   NS1.GEO.NET                  192.231.42.2

   Record last updated on 24-Jan-96.

The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
(Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.  

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From: 	bmanning at ISI.EDU[SMTP:bmanning at ISI.EDU]
Sent: 	Wednesday, March 13, 1996 10:51 PM
To: 	Jim Fleming
Cc: 	dorian at cic.net; kovar at NDA.COM; com-priv at psi.com; jfbb at atmnet.net; nanog at merit.edu; nathan at netrail.net; nic-registry at internic.net
Subject: 	Re: Allocation of IP Addresses

> 
> 
> Here are some people that might be interested in these issues...
> 
> Jim Fleming
> Naperville, IL
> 
> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
> There always will be disadvantages of being small. This is true in every 
> market.
> 
> >   Do you truly believe there is no way to avoid the forced renumbering
> > problem for the smaller ISPs?
> 
> There is no way to avoid renumbering. Every other plausible proposal I've 
> seen have been renumbering under a different guise.
> 
> -dorian
> 

	Jim, old buddy,  you forgot the European Union delegates, South
	America, Africa, CIS, China and the AP nations.   Better punt the
	whole darn thing right to the UN right now.  Since when did the 
	global internet get to be regulated by the US government?

-- 
--bill