> Remember that we are trying to build a network that is going to last > for hundreds if not thousands of years. some of us do not have such hubris. > I don't think it likely that the RIRs or ICANN or even the IETF lasts > that long. If it does it will be in a very different form. i suspect the same is true for the internet. i bet it will be quite different in much less than a hundred years. so can we please stick to engineering, not omnipotence. randy