Comments solicited: assignment of non-routed network numbers

I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. If the number isn't unique and
can't be used and the network in question can NEVER attach to the
Internet, why bother to get an officially assigned number at all?
  -Jeff Ogden
   Merit/MichNet

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