<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Folks,<div><br></div><div>Thanks to all who've chimed here in these last few hours; your insight has been spot on.</div><div><br></div><div>From some of the uncomfortable replies to the original broadly-worded questions in my message I can tell I've asked the right questions.</div><div><br></div><div>I hope these questions challenge your assumptions about the issue as much as they've made me rethink some of my assumptions about networking and the legal framework of the Internet.</div><div><br></div><div>As a final thought, perhaps the 'home address' analogy is strained in this context - maybe we should compare this to the ownership of phone numbers (and their portability).</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, I must say I agree with Mr. Cerf in his comments at the IGF a few weeks back; I'm not sure it's does anyone any good to run around selling v4 space - what we likely should be doing is encouraging all who can to implement v6 to the extent possible.</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you all very much,</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Ernesto M. Rubi</div><div>Sr. Network Engineer</div><div>AMPATH/CIARA</div><div>Florida International Univ, Miami</div><div>Reply-to: <a href="mailto:ernesto@cs.fiu.edu">ernesto@cs.fiu.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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