[136570] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: And so it ends...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ernie Rubi)
Thu Feb 3 14:54:52 2011
From: Ernie Rubi <ernesto@cs.fiu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <32423678.4563.1296761643887.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 14:54:02 -0500
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
That's the question, and it seemed that the answer started to be =
formulated in terms of 'community acquiescence/policy leads to =
authority' in a previous email, so I wanted to make sure that was in =
fact the response to the question, at least in part.
ARIN will likely argue that 'this was done already' (i.e. they've taken =
legacy IP space away from an unwilling/uncooperative holder of said =
legacy space), but I haven't seen such an example.
This is a good debate, a lot of people are already annoyed at these =
questions and every single one always has an air of 'stfu kid' about =
them. But then again, a lot of ppl got annoyed at the civil rights =
movement. (drifting off topic here). You cannot escape these questions =
and they will be decided firmly (in a legal sense) sooner or later. =20
It may be that this all becomes moot when v6 gets fully deployed, but =
until then, it's a worthwhile conversation to have.
On Feb 3, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
> I strongly suspect that his question is actually "Does ARIN have any=20=
> enforceable legal authority to compel an entity to cease using a
> specific block of address space, absent a contract?"
