[149318] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Wed Feb 1 13:17:42 2012
From: George Bonser <gbonser@seven.com>
To: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 18:16:46 +0000
In-Reply-To: <31D1D7E5-7548-4AB2-9051-1064DB7C8B4C@virtualized.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> >> "We have a contractual relationship with our customer to announce
> that space. We have neither a contractual relationship (in this
> context) with the RIR nor the RIR's customer. The RIR and/or the RIR's
> customer should resolve this issue with our customer."
> > Contracts are generally not a valid reason to be breaking laws.
>=20
> Which law?
>=20
> Regards,
> -drc
>=20
Let's say I had a business in space in a building I was leasing at 100 Main=
Street, Podunk, USA. Now let's say you didn't renew the lease so I moved =
to a building up the block but put the 100 Main Street address on my new lo=
cation and continued to use that address for my business.
Or let's say I operated a TV station on channel 37 that was allocated to yo=
u but you terminate my operating contract. So I lease/erect a new transmit=
ter and continue broadcasting on channel 37.
There obviously must be a remedy for two parties attempting to utilize the =
same resource at the same time, particularly when one party is the rightful=
ly in control of that resource's use. It might be civil rather than crimin=
al but the rightful owner of the resource would have a good case.
