[71792] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Welty)
Wed Jun 23 17:55:45 2004
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:53:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Richard Welty <rwelty@averillpark.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <MDEHLPKNGKAHNMBLJOLKGEDKMNAA.davids@webmaster.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 14:36:56 -0700 David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> wrote:
> > For instance, if what you say were true, all an ISP would have to do in
> > order to "sell" their IP space is to create a contract stating that they
> > are doing so.
> Exactly. If they did that, a court would likely enjoin them from making any
> action to interfere with the customer's use of those IP addresses. A court
> would likely find the contract binding upon the parties that entered into
> it.
there's a word for selling something that you don't own.
richard
(i've got that bridge around here some where, anyone want to buy it?)
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