[125179] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Warren Bailey)
Fri Apr 9 14:43:05 2010
From: Warren Bailey <wbailey@gci.com>
To: Curtis Maurand <cmaurand@xyonet.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 10:42:50 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4BBF6E93.4080602@xyonet.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Regulatory bodies can fine you. Not all regulation comes with guns, hippies=
. ;)
And .. The FCC does have access to people with guns, as does any US Federal=
Agency. Try transmitting illegally on an FM band for a while and see who s=
hows up. I'd be shocked if people with guns didn't arrive in record time.=20
-----Original Message-----
From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:cmaurand@xyonet.com]=20
Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 10:15 AM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
On 4/9/2010 1:43 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>> No, ARIN is not a regulator. Regulators have guns or access to=20
>> people with
>> guns to enforce the regulations that they enact. ARIN has no such power.
>>
>> The FCC is a regulator. The California PUC is a regulator. ARIN is not
>> a regulator.
>> =20
> Last I heard, the FCC has access to people with law degrees not guns.
> Much like ARIN, really.
> =20
ARIN can act by de-allocating your network and revoking your ASN's. =20
They can't fine you, but if you violate the RSA, they can revoke your=20
stuff. That seems regulatory to me.
--Curtis
