Global council of registries???

On Monday, April 28, 1997 11:25 AM, Philip J. Nesser II[SMTP:pjnesser at martigny.ai.mit.edu] wrote:
@ Jim Fleming supposedly said:
@ > 
@ > @ Great.  Lets have some yes cases then!  (And I don't think a company
@ > @ without a clue who hire a knowledgeble consultant to get the job done is
@ > @ evidence of any conspiracy.  Lets have situations where a company
@ > @ *shouldn't* be granted address space on technical reasons who gets it
@ > @ because someone knows someone.)
@ > @ 
@ > 
@ > would you like to start with the MIT Class A ???
@ > 
@ 
@ Do you know anything of both Internet history and IP?  In its early life I
@ only had 8 bit network numbers and 24 bit host addresses, then we got
@ classes (A/B/C/D/E) and the we got subnets, and then we got supernets
@ (CIDR).  MIT and all the other universities and companies who were part of
@ early IP research have class A's because thats all there were when they
@ joined the game.  To be clear, all of the assignments were *fair*.
@ Criteria change over time.  MIT did not get 18/8 because Jeff Schiller is
@ Jon Postels nephew or some such nonsense.  They happened to be the 18th
@ network to join the arpanet (more or less).
@ 
@ I can't build a building to 1970 standards because the building next door
@ was built in 1970.  In the late 80's and early 90's people got /16 networks
@ relatively easy.  Did they know people or was it a good old boys network
@ because they require significantly more justification now?
@ 
@ Lets have some facts based in truth and not conspiracy whispers.
@ 
@ --->  Phil
@ 
@ 
@ 

Can you explain the @Home allocation ?

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