Re: 40 acres and a mule, was Lightly used IP addresses

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja () bogus com>]

On Aug 14, 2010, at 10:27, Jimi Thompson <jimi.thompson () gmail com> wrote:

> It was 40 acres and a mule - FYI

No 40 acres was 1/4 of 1/4 of a section. That's 's Sherman's field order (1865) not the homestead act (which was 160). 
Or the circa 1790 activity referred to in this thread. 

Joel's iPad
> On 8/14/10 11:22 AM, "John R. Levine" <johnl () iecc com> wrote:
>
> > > Convincingly said here on an ISP mailing list. But what about the
> > > folks who were denied address assignments by ARIN policies over the
> > > last 15 years? Denied them based on the fiction that ISPs didn't own
> > > IP addresses, that they were merely holding the addresses in trust for
> > > the public they serve. ...
> >
> > I dunno.  What was New York's responsibility in the 1790s to guys who
> > didn't join the army because they had to stay home and take care of their
> > widowed mother and six younger sisters?
> >
> > I wouldn't for a moment claim that IPv4 space was a way that was uniformly
> > fair or wise or close to ideal.  But I don't think you're going to have
> > much luck imposing fairness and wisdom retroactively on people who've
> > already got the space.
> >
> > R's,
> > John