LET'S JUST GO AROUND

[Paul Ferguson]

At 03:55 PM 2/4/97 -0500, Jeff Binkley wrote:

>
>I won't disagree that the address space needs to be managed.  I believe 
>this is first an engineering question and not an organizational/economic 
>one.  I think once the engineering pieces are figured out then we can 
>move onto the organizational and economic pieces.  I think it would be a 
>mistake to use economics to force compliance to engineering rules 
>because if so done, technology will soon replace the economic pressures.  
>history has proven this.
>

If this were simply an engineering exercise, then we wouldn't be
having this silly discussion. Small entities wouldn't be pestering
the registries for addresses, they would be going to their upstream
providers. Problem solved.

- paul