... 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