Why split IP allocations from the Internic?

On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Jim Fleming wrote:

> What is wrong with the plan to clone the InterNIC many times
> that is well underway ?
> 
> Here is the short form...
> 	1. Clone the InterNIC 49 times

It's scary that people like this is trying to push *very* wrong ideas,
it may look like geting a licence plate for your car because there is
an office that keeps things under control, but the parallelism ends there,
it is not the same problem.

raymundo