[136833] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Sat Feb 5 18:07:03 2011
Date: 5 Feb 2011 23:06:13 -0000
From: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4D4DC2D7.7080009@brightok.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> Your right to use a particular set of addresses on a particular
>> network is not granted by any RIR.
As far as I know, there's no case law about address space assignments.
There's been a bunch of cases where someone stole address space by
pretending to be the original assignee, like the SF Bay Packet Radio
case in 2008, but as far as I know, the ones that have been resolved
were resolved without a court's help. There's also plenty of stolen
address space still in use by the party that stole it.
If there have been cases with a willing seller and a willing buyer
where ARIN has refused to update WHOIS or rDNS, I'd be interested to
hear about them.
R's,
John
