Independent space from ARIN

Mon Apr 14 22:25:47 UTC 2003

> Who said they would just sit on it?  Why not make the Internet 
> now "The Internet, Brought To You By Company X?"  You need Company
> X's address space, so you have to provide Company X's services on
> Company X's operating system?

This is exactly the biggest problem.  It's naive to imagine that this
wouldn't happen to some extent.  In the real world, there are a number of
Company X's who don't play nice.

> It's this kind of thing that keeps areas of the radio spectrum
> licensed by the government.

Although radio spectrum is more divisible than we used to think.

Kevin