[72066] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W Gilmore)
Tue Jun 29 12:14:31 2004
In-Reply-To: <20040629132811.GC22288@toontown.erial.nj.us>
Cc: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
From: Patrick W Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:10:36 -0400
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Jun 29, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Bob Snyder wrote:
> Of course, since you're doing this based on email that NAC sent, who
> has
> been enjoined from "directly or indirectly" preventing the customer
> from
> using their IP space, you may be opening NAC up to further liability.
>
> I'm not necessarily opposed to the idea, but it needs to be clear that
> you aren't doing this at NAC's request, and even so, the judge may take
> a dim view of NAC's involvement.
NAC had nothing to do with this. I have a long history in this and
other forums of promoting aggregation, with the notable exception of
multi-homed *TRANSIT CUSTOMERS* announcing routes via BGP. Suggesting
providers not accept prefixes which violates both my personal views and
standard Internet doctrine is not something Alex told me to do.
In fact, I applaud his discretion for not even mentioning the prefix,
customer, AS, or anything else which would even HINT that he would
violate the court order. In fact, I have suggested that he not do so
here in this forum, and Alex has posted language from the TRO stating
he is barred from doing so.
IOW: This is simply another _operational_ suggestion to help make the
Internet run more smoothly.
--
TTFN,
patrick
