Patrick Mevzek on Nostr: "It’s so annoying that they basically hand out IP addresses if you want them". No, ...

"It’s so annoying that they basically hand out IP addresses if you want them". No, not the case today. You have to be a member of RIR and prove use of IPs, and certainly not for scarce IPv4 addresses. Plus that space is far from litigation/problems, see the Afrinic saga? "ICANN is a shitty company anyways" but it is not a company at all… ICANN is a late 199X invention. Noone saw needs of regulations there before the Web exploded in use. Alternative would/could have been the UN/ITU…