[8029] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Sat Mar 8 20:54:26 1997
Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 20:49:07 -0500
To: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@inquo.net>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 06:17 PM 3/8/97 -0700, Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
>
>I'm just a little curious. If the current policy (as stated by at least
>one Draft RFC) is that IP address space is not owned, how can someone sell
>a Class B? If they are selling it, that must mean that they don't actually
>need it, so therefore they are obligated to return it to InterNIC. On the
>other side, maybe InterNIC has an obligation to take it back.
>
>What kinds of guarantees are there that if someone buys it, that they will
>actually be able to get and keep this Class B?
>
You know what they say, 'Possession is 9/10'ths of the law'. ;-)
- paul
