[71832] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can a customer take IP's with them?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Jun 24 10:01:47 2004
To: John Neiberger <John.Neiberger@efirstbank.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:48:14 MDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 00:49:41 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:48:14 MDT, John Neiberger <John.Neiberger@efirstbank.com> said:
> IANAL, but it appears that from a contractual perspective it is clear
> that ARIN retains all 'ownership' rights to the address space. They
> subdivide it to those who are willing to contractually agree to their
> conditions, but the ownership is never transferred. I would think that
> that is an important distinction to make.
IANAL either, but I believe that ARIN doesn't claim to own 32-bit integers.
What they're providing is a *registry service* to keep track of what entities
are using what ranges of 32-bit integers, to prevent duplication. There's no
*requirement* that you use any particular address range, except that by
community agreement, nobody wants to deal with non-registered addresses.
If ARIN actually *owned* the address space, we'd not have the perennial
flame-war regarding 1918-space source addresses on the global net - everybody
would do a really fast and good job of implementing ingress/egress filtering
because ARIN could sue you for using their addresses... :)
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