[20121] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [YA] Fwd: Class B Purchase
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Li)
Mon Oct 5 17:29:07 1998
To: karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger)
cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Tony Li <tli@juniper.net>
Date: 05 Oct 1998 14:13:11 -0700
In-Reply-To: karl@Mcs.Net's message of 5 Oct 98 20:14:19 GMT
karl@Mcs.Net (Karl Denninger) writes:
> Specifically, RFC2008 says:
>
> While it has never been explicitly stated that various Internet
> Registries use the "address ownership" allocation policy, it has
> always been assumed (and practiced).
>
> That sentence, in particular the last five words of that sentence, are
> extremely important. 10+ years of a given practice and set of operating
> rules cannot be overturned by fiat.
One might notice that these words were written in an RFC. Not in a law
book.
They have all of the legal weight of a Jim Flem-o-gram.
Tony
