[47675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP renumbering timeframe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Thu May 9 18:06:27 2002
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <daveid@panix.com>, Ralph Doncaster <ralph@istop.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 15:05:35 -0700
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On Mon, 6 May 2002 09:59:24 -0400 (EDT), David R Huberman wrote:
>>Is that true? I thought the space belongs to ARIN, and they=
loan it to
>>certain parties. Those parties can use the IPs in accordance=
with ARIN
>>rules.
>The way you've written the above statements makes them true.=
However, such
>a relationship does not extend to the issue you're dealing with.=
ARIN
>cannot dictate the business practices of its constituents.
=09Actually, ARIN can dictate how its constituents allocate IP=
space because
conforming to ARIN's policies is one of the conditions of an IP=
allocation
and no ownership rights to the IP space are transferred in the=
assignment
process. This argument has worked successfully for myself and=
others when
negotiations with an address space provider turned hostile. (To=
my knowledge,
it's never been tested in court.)
=09DS
