Policy Statement on Address Space Allocations
bmanning at ISI.EDU bmanning at ISI.EDU
Fri Feb 2 20:55:34 CET 1996
> > > In message <199602021407.AA25614 at zephyr.isi.edu>, Bill Manning writes: > > > > There were a couple of methods suggested here: > > > > preemptive hijacking - > > voluntary return - > > periodic fees - > > > > Hijacking has a number of interesting problems > > Bill, > > There is no need to call it hijacking. > > If an organization registered an address they are responsible for > keeping the contact name up to date. The kicker is, where are they keeping the data? InterNIC ? DDNnic? RIPEncc? The problem is compounded with the InterNIC and the DDNnic keeping authoritative data over the same space. Can you say "SRI connected/unconnected database problems"... sure you can. > This should help with the 60% that can't be contacted. Yes - I know > this is work, so don't take this as a complaint that you are doing > something you should be, just a suggestion for dealing with this > problem. In fact, that is exactly why a robot mailer is not a cureall. The process followed is close to yoru description. Hence a slower pace of progress than many would like. This swamp is -deep-. --bill
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