[SpamCop-List] Re: Comcast, etc.

[Steven Maesslein]

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 10:58:29 -0800, Michael Wise coughed into spamcop 
and left this in <usenet-67E049.10582901022006 at news.cesmail.net>:

> Why? The last I looked, both countries are still located in the Pacific 
> region.

And?

RIPE stands for "Réseaux IP Européens" (European IP networks) and yet 
that RIR managed Africa's IP space for ages. Africa is not in Europe as 
far as I remember. RIPE still manages IP space in the Middle-East to 
this day, yet the Middle-East isn't in Europe.

IP space in sub-saharan Africa used to be handled by ARIN (American 
Registry of Internet Numbers), yet Zimbabwe for example wasn't in 
America last time I looked.

My point is that the world changes and that nothing prevents an RIR's 
effective reach including more than or not including parts of what its 
name would suggest. Therefore, there's nothing to stop APNIC dropping 
the "Pacific" part, and AU and NZ setting up their own RIR, OceaNIC for 
example. How's that for a good name? :)

APNIC has been permanently tainted because of .in, .id, .cn, .hk, .tw, 
.my and .kr.

-- 
Steve

Why is it that when you transport something by car it's
called shipment, but when you transport it by ship it's
called cargo?