Re: Draft internic ip allocation doc

[Jeremy Porter <jerry () fc net>]

> > What's being asked for here is what a lot of businesses might consider
> > proprietary or trade secret type information.  There are few secrets on the
> > Internet, we all know, once the network is in place, but plans for expansion
> > and new business ought to be confidential until the day the circuit is
> > turned on.
>
> It is the case that several regulatory agencies ask for similar information
> when an organization requests allocation of spectrum.  For example,
> in the US the FCC asks for an "independent" engineering review  for several 
> classes of spectrum allocation.
>
> peter

The Internic(s) has no legal status as a regulatory agency.  Specificly
seeing as no one owns the Internet to regulate it, this is a completely
bogus point.


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