[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[randy at psg.com (Randy Bush)]

> I suspect we just sent email to Jon Postel, and he looked in the draft
> version of "Assigned Numbers" which he kept in his disk directory on
> ISI{mumble}, gave you the next number, and wrote it down there! :-)

not exactly.  the authoritative record was a written book.  oddly, that
book disappeared off his desk the morning after his death.  while many
folk know who stole it, folk have not worked up the guts to confront the
issue and get it back.

randy