[128644] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Fri Aug 13 17:29:59 2010
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:29:26 -0400
From: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20100813211800.GL2669@dan.olp.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:18:01PM -0500, Dan White said:
>Make a public example of the situation. Assign such a block to an ARIN
>member with extensive legal resources who's willing to send some nasty
>letters out, and back it up with court action to establish legal
>precedence.
>
>Or ARIN could do so itself on the grounds of breach of contract.
>
>Of course, said block should clearly fall within ARIN's domain, backed up
>with a signed contract from the original party.
Many of these outfits already have cashflow issue - suing them into the ground
when they're already underwater is probably a cash-losing situation for ARIN.
And I bet other orgs who are in good financial standing dont want to fund a
suit against a judgement-proof org and lose money pushing lawyers around just
for fun - not until IPs are worth $10+/IP/month at least, anyway. Then the
lawsuits might be worth the investment.
Pretty awesome: I see a new industry forming: IP REPO MEN.
(Dont know if we can cast Emilio Estevez in th movie version, he's a bit too old now...)
/kc
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