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Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

2003-05-27 15:54:10
--On Tuesday, 27 May, 2003 14:29 -0700 Tony Hain <alh-ietf(_at_)tndh(_dot_)net> wrote:

...
With this type of policy, the operations community is
dictating which applications can be run from specific ranges
of IP addresses. This would be comparable to the phone
companies dictating that modems couldn't be used from phone
numbers that were allocated for voice use.

Of course, the then-Deutschebundespost was trying to do exactly that well into the 1990s.

I agree with your note, and how others find it useful in putting the topic in perspective.

   john