[102558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Tue Feb 19 14:13:32 2008
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:08:20 -0500
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
CC: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>, Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <1235FB56-9994-4638-8ADA-C9006F63536A@delong.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Owen DeLong wrote:
> This would create significant legal challenges and costs.
I dont understand how they could prevail. Suppose I decided to tell
people that as far as I was concerned this 32 bit number up to that
32bit number would be available for their use in whatever manner they
wanted, like printing them on t-shirts, and that they would have the
privilege of paying me for the guarantee that I would do so uniquely.
Barring a prior agreement, what grounds does any third party have to object?
For that matter, aside from consensus and inertia, what would stop the
operator community as a whole from setting up shop with a "forked"
registry that had no contractual agreements with anybody prior?