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Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
From: shields () crosslink net (Michael Shields)
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 06:46:04 -0500
So, since I paid money for my car registration & license plates, I should be able to sell my plates to someone else to put on their car?
I believe that people with spiffy vanity plates have sold them. Why not? But discussion about the Internet is always plagued with analogies. IP address allocation is not really like the allocation of land, or phone numbers, or pollution credits, or milk quotas, or typing paper, or license plates, or routing table slots, or cocaine. It's sort of like all of these things, but not completely like any of them. And the nature of an analogy is that it pretends two things are similar in all ways. The best way to think about this is not: "IP addresses should be allocated in X way because Y is allocated that way," "But IP addresses are not like Y," "Are so!", but instead: "What is the current policy on IP address allocation? What are the implications? What would be the implications of this other policy?" Analogies are a good tool when things really are the same, but nothing hurts you like using the wrong tool. Since IP addresses are not like other things, there is not much to compare them to. -- Shields, CrossLink. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Current thread:
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd), (continued)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Brett L. Hawn (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Tom Glover (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Alex P. Rudnev (Mar 10)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Tom Glover (Mar 10)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Michael Dillon (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Karl Denninger (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Brett L. Hawn (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Lon R. Stockton, Jr. (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Brett L. Hawn (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) David Schwartz (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Michael Shields (Mar 10)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Michael Dillon (Mar 09)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Stephen Balbach (Mar 08)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Michael Dillon (Mar 08)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) David R. Conrad (Mar 08)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Randy Bush (Mar 08)
- Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd) Matt Magri (Mar 09)