>Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 07:44:50 -0800
>From: "David R. Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Organization: Nominum, Inc.
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>To: Michael Sondow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: "David R. Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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>Subject: Re: [aso-policy] RE: [aso-comment] IP address holders - are they
> represented?
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>Michael,
>
>> David Schutt's intelligent reply to this just about says it all.
>
>It says something, certainly.
>
>> I
>> would only add that the relinquishment of democratic rights in one
>> area of communications, even if it were true, is hardly a good
>> argument for relinquishing them in all other areas.
>
>IPv4 address allocation is based on technical considerations that relate to
>management of a limited (albeit one can argue not currently scarce) resource
>and the implications the allocation of that resource has on the Internet
>routing system. The allocation of IPv4 addresses has _NEVER_ been democratic,
>it has been and is driven by the physics of the Internet.
>
>> If your argument
>> were sound, we might as well abandon the democratic ideal altogether
>> and turn over our lives to the dictators.
>
>And the fact that you have no say in the allocation of SS7 endpoint identifers
>has obviously resulted in the establishment of the totalitarian state driven
>by The Phone Company.
>
>> Is that what you'd like to see?
>
>What I would like to see is continued reliance on technical considerations for
>the allocation of IPv4 address space rather than a system that relies on
>politics.
>
>Rgds,
>-drc
>
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