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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses

  • From: Perry E. Metzger
  • Date: Thu Mar 14 14:09:12 1996 
Paul Ferguson writes:
> Perry, this is a ridiculous comparison. One could also argue that you
> can grow more food,

Can you grow an infinite amount of additional food?

Can you buy more gold than there is on the planet?

Can you make more land than we have?

Can you, as someone unaffiliated with a company, "make" more shares of
the company?

I could also argue that you can use NAT boxes to "make" more IP
addresses.

In any case, so what? Economic allocation of resources is, if
anything, more important when there is significant scarcity.

Perry