[8054] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brett L. Hawn)
Sun Mar 9 13:17:04 1997
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 11:05:00 -0600 (CST)
From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net>
To: Nathan Stratton <nathan@netrail.net>
cc: "0000-Admin(0000)" <root@netreach.net>, randy@psg.com, nanog@MERIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970309100421.4476F-100000@netrail.net>
On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, Nathan Stratton wrote:
> > It also does not prevent someone from selling not an IP address block,
> > but selling ownership of a company that happens to own an IP address
> > block. The geometric possibilities alone are astounding.....
>
> Yes, but the new company must justify the space to the nic.
Why? Is there a signed contract tht says I must return unwanted/unused space
to the nic? If so lets go recollect all those IPs being wasted by Frito-Lay,
MIT, and countless other orignizations that got their space before anyone
had to justify needs for IP space.
Face it, all the nic is, is a 'globally' (not totally true but good enough
for our purposes) storage facility that allocates its resources on a first
come, as needed basis. If I have a stockpile of typing paper that I'm
willing to sell because I don't need it should I sent it back to the
wharehouse or should I sell it to the guy next door who's willing to give me
10 bucks per carton?
You are assuming that the nic/ARIN is the end all be all of IP space, and
thats just not true. I could for example go to IANA and request space (no
doubt they would turn me down unless I had a damn good reason) if I wanted
to, one does _NOT_ have to go through the Nic/ARIN.
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