It is of course quite impossible for me to speak for all librarians on the subject of ‘What the public librarian wants from computers’, although I think I should not be far wrong in saying that at the present time only a minute proportion of public librarians have given serious consideration...

We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Transfers usefully move resources from lowest to highest-valuation networks, but transfers tend to cause socially costly growth in the Internet's routing table. We...