RE: Allocation of IP Addresses

[Jim Fleming <JimFleming () unety net>]

If anyone is interested in working on a Declaration of Independence for the Internet.
Here is a docoument that supposedly was where Thomas Jefferson started.

Jim Fleming
Naperville, IL

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(This is Professor Julian Boyd's reconstruction of Thomas Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of 
Independence before it was revised by the other members of the Committee of Five and by Congress. From: The Papers of 
Thomas Jefferson. Vol. 1, 1760-1776. Ed. Julian P. Boyd. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1950, pp 243-247) 
(Italics ours.)


Jefferson's "original Rough draught" of the Declaration of Independence

A Declaration of the Representatives of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, in General Congress assembled.

When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for a people to advance from that subordination in which they 
have hitherto remained, & to assume among the powers of the earth the equal & independant station to which the laws of 
nature & of nature's god entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare 
the causes which impel them to the change.

We hold these truths to be sacred & undeniable; that all men are created equal & independant, that from that equal 
creation they derive rights inherent & inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, & liberty, & the pursuit 
of happiness; that to secure these ends, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the 
consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government shall become destructive of these ends, it is the right 
of the people to alter or to abolish it, & to institute new government, laying it's foundation on such principles & 
organising it's powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety & happiness. prudence 
indeed will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light & transient causes: and 
accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable, than to 
right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. but when a long train of abuses & usurpations, 
begun at a distinguished period, & pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to subject them to arbitrary 
power, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government & to provide new guards for their future 
security. such has been the patient sufferance of these colonies; & such is now the necessity which constrains them to 
expunge their former systems of government. the history of his present majesty, is a history of unremitting injuries 
and usurpations, among which no one fact stands single or solitary to contradict the uniform tenor of the rest, all of 
which have in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. to prove this, let facts be 
submitted to a candid world, for the truth of which we pledge a faith yet unsullied by falsehood. 

he has refused his assent to laws the most wholesome and necessary for the public good: 

he has forbidden his governors to pass laws of immediate & pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation 
till his assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has neglected utterly to attend to them. 

he has refused to pass other laws for the accomodation of large districts of people unless those people would 
relinquish the right of representation, a right inestimable to them, formidable to tyrants alone: 

he has dissolved Representative houses repeatedly & continually, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the 
rights of the people: 

he has refused for a long space of time to cause others to be elected, whereby the legislative powers, incapable of 
annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the state remaining in the mean time exposed to 
all the dangers of invasion from without, & convulsions within: 

he has endeavored to prevent the population of these states; for that purpose obstructing the laws for naturalization 
of foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither; & raising the conditions of new 
appropriations of lands: 

he has suffered the administration of justice totally to cease in some of these colonies, refusing his assent to laws 
for establishing judiciary powers: 

he has made our judges dependant on his will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and amount of their salaries: 

he has erected a multitude of new offices by a self-assumed power, & sent hither swarms of officers to harrass our 
people & eat out their substance: 

he has kept among us in times of peace standing armies & ships of war: 

he has affected to render the military, independant of & superior to the civil power: 

he has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitutions and unacknoleged by our laws; 
giving his assent to their pretended acts of legislation, for quartering large bodies of armed troops among us; 

for protecting them by a mock-trial from punishment for any murders they should commit on the inhabitants of these 
states; 

for cutting off our trade with all parts of the world; 

for imposing taxes on us without our consent; 

for depriving us of the benefits of trial by jury; 

for transporting us beyond seas to be tried for pretended offences: for taking away our charters, & altering 
fundamentally the forms of our governments; 

for suspending our own legislatures & declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases 
whatsoever: 

he has abdicated government here, withdrawing his governors, & declaring us out of his allegiance & protection: 

he has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns & destroyed the lives of our people: 

he is at this time transporting large armies of foreign merce naries to compleat the works of death, desolation & 
tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty & perfidy unworthy the head of a civilized nation: 

he has endeavored to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers the merciless Indian savages, whose known rule of 
warfare is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes, & conditions of existence: 

he has incited treasonable insurrections in our fellow-subjects, with the allurements of forfeiture & confiscation of 
our property: 

he has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it's most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons 
of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur 
miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the 
warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he 
has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable 
commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very 
people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people 
upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with 
crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another. 

in every stage of these oppressions we have petitioned for redress in the most humble terms; our repeated petitions 
have been answered by repeated injury. a prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, 
is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free. future ages will scarce believe that the hardiness of one 
man, adventured within the short compass of 12 years only, on so many acts of tyranny without a mask, over a people 
fostered & fixed in principles of liberty. 

Nor have we been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. we have warned them from time to time of attempts by 
their legislature to extend a jurisdiction over these our states. we have reminded them of the circumstances of our 
emigration & settlement here, no one of which could warrant so strange a pretension: that these were effected at the 
expence of our own blood & treasure, unassisted by the wealth or the strength of Great Britain: that in constituting 
indeed our several forms of government, we had adopted one common king, thereby laying a foundation for perpetual 
league & amity with them: but that submission to their parliament was no part of our constitution, nor ever in idea, if 
history may be credited: and we appealed to their native justice & magnanimity, as well as to the ties of our common 
kindred to disavow these usurpations which were likely to interrupt our correspondence & connection. they too have been 
deaf to the voice of justice & of consanguinity, & when occasions have been given them, by the regular course of their 
laws, of removing from their councils the disturbers of our harmony, they have by their free election re-established 
them in power. at this very time too they are permitting their chief magistrate to send over not only soldiers of our 
common blood, but Scotch & foreign mercenaries to invade & deluge us in blood. these facts have given the last stab to 
agonizing affection, and manly spirit bids us to renounce for ever these unfeeling brethren. we must endeavor to forget 
our former love for them, and to hold them as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in war, in peace friends. we might 
have been a free & great people together; but a communication of grandeur & of freedom it seems is below their dignity. 
be it so, since they will have it: the road to glory & happiness is open to us too; we will climb it in a separate 
state, and acquiesce in the necessity which pronounces our everlasting Adieu! 

We therefore the representatives of the United States of America in General Congress assembled do, in the name & by 
authority of the good people of these states, reject and renounce a11 allegiance & subjection to the kings of Great 
Britain & all others who may hereafter claim by, through, or under them; we utterly dissolve & break off a11 political 
connection which may have heretofore subsisted between us & the people or parliament of Great Britain; and finally we 
do assert and declare these a colonies to be free and independant states, and that as free & independant states they 
shall hereafter have power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, & to do all other acts 
and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of this declaration we mutually pledge to each 
other our lives, our fortunes, & our sacred honour. 





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From:   bmanning () isi edu[SMTP:bmanning () isi edu]
Sent:   Wednesday, March 13, 1996 10:51 PM
To:     Jim Fleming
Cc:     dorian () cic net; kovar () NDA COM; com-priv () psi com; jfbb () atmnet net; nanog () merit edu; nathan () 
netrail net; nic-registry () internic net
Subject:        Re: Allocation of IP Addresses

> Here are some people that might be interested in these issues...
>
> Jim Fleming
> Naperville, IL
>
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> There always will be disadvantages of being small. This is true in every 
> market.
>
> >   Do you truly believe there is no way to avoid the forced renumbering
> > problem for the smaller ISPs?
>
> There is no way to avoid renumbering. Every other plausible proposal I've 
> seen have been renumbering under a different guise.
>
> -dorian

        Jim, old buddy,  you forgot the European Union delegates, South
        America, Africa, CIS, China and the AP nations.   Better punt the
        whole darn thing right to the UN right now.  Since when did the 
        global internet get to be regulated by the US government?

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--bill