[1038] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing wars pending?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@ISI.EDU)
Wed Nov 15 15:34:54 1995
From: bmanning@ISI.EDU
To: zachary@zachs.place.org (Zachary DeAquila)
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 12:27:03 -0800 (PST)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <m0tFnSU-00014KC@zachs.place.org> from "Zachary DeAquila" at Nov 15, 95 01:25:20 pm
> Owen said:
> >Sean said:
> >> Hm, routing wars. Fun stuff. Expect much heat on this shortly... :(
> >>
> [...]
> >
> >The question boils down to who really does own the address space, and
> >frankly, the fact that money changed hands causes me to lean more towads
> >the person who paid.
>
>Well, but was the changing of money for a *purchase* or a *lease* ? The coming
>CIDRization seems to lend itself more toward leasing your IPs from your provider
>than purchasing them... much like small companies rarely buy a suite in a larger
>building, instead they lease... with IPs though, the length of term of the lease
>would be something to the effect of 'while getting service from the same provider'.
>
> --Zachary
>
Er... Remeber that this works for providers as well. They don't "own" the CIDR
blocks they have either. They have them on loan from the address registries.
--
--bill
