RE: IP Addresses Do Not Wear Out

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming@doorstep.unety.net>]

On Monday, April 13, 1998 2:07 PM, Avi Freedman[SMTP:freedman@netaxs.com] wrote:
@> Having all that space sitting idle on the shelf at USC/ISI (IANA)
@> does no one any good and in fact it hurts the system. Just because
@> you have this fear that you are going to walk into Jon Postel's
@> office in a few years and see an empty shelf and panic, does not
@> mean that the whole world should suffer under these absurb policies.
@
@No, having an empty shelf is a future to fear and thus we can deal
@with some pain currently.
@

The shelf can never be empty. The IPv4 addresses do not wear out.
If you properly package the blocks as /19s they can not be split.

It seems to me that YOU, personally fear that the system that
has afforded YOU ample IP addresses will not be there and instead
YOU will be forced to go into the market place just like other ISPs
and not to Jon or Kim. If that is the case, then that is a very selfish
view of the world and you are willing to have the entire world suffer
just to make your life easier at some future date because you prefer
to get your IP addresses from the shelf where there has always been
an ample supply.

You state that "we can deal with some pain". What pain are you
dealing with ? Do you care about the pain that other people are
dealing with ?
-
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
IBC, Tortola, BVI