[136839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Leasing" of space via non-connectivity providers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Sat Feb 5 18:41:49 2011
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:41:23 -0600
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1102051810380.7642@joyce.lan>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 2/5/2011 5:25 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
>>
>> Isn't it moot when you can reallocate the entire block to the other
>> party? Contractual agreements of the sale would enforce the inability
>> to reclaim or remove the reallocation.
>
> If the user doesn't match what's in WHOIS, a lot of people will assume
> that the block is hijacked.
That's my point. If a legacy holder can update WHOIS, I presume they can
also just allocate the entire block to someone else. It would reflect
that in WHOIS, no one would consider it hijacked.
Jack
