[149332] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Feb 1 15:41:52 2012
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <20120201201012.GE10680@hiwaay.net>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 15:40:58 -0500
To: Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 1, 2012, at 3:10 PM, Chris Adams wrote:
> AFAIK there's no law covering the use of what party X considers their 32
> bit numbers (assigned by party A) by party Y.
The US bankruptcy courts have treated these as property that can be
sold/transferred comparable to other assets. (See threads re: borders,
microsoft, etc in 2011).
This does have the effect of being at least a cite in any further
litigation, even if the position is not upheld on appeal.
- Jared
