[8090] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Fleming)
Sun Mar 9 18:17:57 1997
From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net>
To: "Lon R. Stockton, Jr." <lon@moonstar.com>,
"nanog@merit.edu"
<nanog@MERIT.EDU>,
"'Stephen Sprunk'" <spsprunk@paranet.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 16:42:41 -0600
On Sunday, March 09, 1997 4:35 PM, Stephen Sprunk[SMTP:spsprunk@paranet.com] wrote:
<snip>
@ Did you sign any such contract when you got your IP addresses? Are there
@ any laws in your jurisdiction stating the ownership and appropriate use of
@ your addresses?
@
People who are homesteading may not have "signed" anything.
Other people may have signed papers and paid money.
@ There is no workable analogy in this case because there are no contracts and
@ no laws regarding anything on the Net at this point. Until ARIN makes you
@ sign an acceptable-use agreement (and makes pre-1996 "owners" sign it too),
@ there can be no enforceable policy other than what the core router owners
@ decide. Routability determines address assignment far more definitively
@ than a NIC board room full of cigar smoke and $10k fees.
@
@ Stephen Sprunk
How do you know...."there are no contracts and no laws"...?
--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation
e-mail:
JimFleming@unety.net
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