Global council of registries???

[Philip J. Nesser II]

Stephen Satchell supposedly said:
> 
> At 4:23 PM -0500 4/28/97, Philip J. Nesser II wrote:
> >
> >Who decides who gets converted?  How do you decide it?  How to you know how
> >much address space MIT (in this example) is actually using?  Who does this
> >audit?  To carve out your 3000 /18's below you will leave MIT with exactly
> >-769654784 IP addresses to use.  I guess they will have to go take all of
> >Stanfords, BBN's and DEC's just to make up the diference.
> 
> MIT should know how much address space they are using.  In a perfect world,
> some of the early players would return a majority of the "free space" back
> to the pool.  As for who decides:
> 

Many early players have returned address space.  Large blocks in fact have
been returned.  

> The owners do, under the audit of ARIN or whatever.
> 

You want ARIN to be the IP address police?  My feeling about address
assignment is very similar to building permits.  You have to go through the
approval process and meet the current regulations, but one your building
permit is granted then the government shouldn't be able to require you to
rewire your house every few years as the wiring code change.

--->  Phil