Independent space from ARIN

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Tue Apr 15 01:22:54 UTC 2003


Sorry, but, the government does _NOT_ auction spectrum space off to the
highest bidder in all cases.  If they did, amateur radio would be dead,
as would FRS, CB, and probably a lot of the part 15 allocations.

Owen

>> It's this kind of thing that keeps areas of the radio spectrum
>> licensed by the government.
>
> And the govt licenses that spectrum to the highest bidder, plus allows
> owners to sell spectrum to each other as assets.  Pretending the RIRs are
> even remotely similar is disingenuous.
>
> S
>
> Stephen Sprunk         "God does not play dice."  --Albert Einstein
> CCIE #3723         "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
> K5SSS        dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
>





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