Global council of registries???

On Monday, April 28, 1997 10:13 AM, Philip J. Nesser II[SMTP:pjnesser at MARTIGNY.AI.MIT.EDU] wrote:
@ Jim Fleming supposedly said:
@ > 
@ > The FAIR allocation of Internet resources is a business,
@ > they are linked via that tie...
@ > 
@ 
@ Thats one of the many places we disagree.  Businesses are not fair.  They
@ tend to compete and want to increase their business.  There is a long
@ history of independent, tecnically competent indiviudals and organizations
@ performing regulatory type assignments.  IP address allocation should be
@ done that way.  (For example, most corporations have board members that are
@ not employees of the company, to help balance the board.)  Trying to have
@ people with a financial interest control the allocation goes against this
@ principle and goes against the principles of openness and fairness which
@ have brought the Internet to where it is.
@ 

Is this the system that has MIT sitting on 1/256th of the address space ?

Is this the system that has Stanford sitting on 1/256th of the address space ?

Is this the system that has BBN with 3/256ths of the address space ?

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Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
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