[92209] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [Fwd: Kremen VS Arin Antitrust Lawsuit - Anyone have feedback?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Mon Sep 11 03:26:07 2006
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To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 08:26:43 +0100
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> 3) What's wrong with treating assignments like property and setting
> up a market to buy and sell them? There's plenty of precedent for this:
>
> Mineral rights, mining claims, Oil and gas leases, radio spectrum.
Before you start making inferences from an analogy,
you had better be sure that you have the right analogy.
IP addresses are not like any of the things that you
mention. They are like phone numbers which also are
not property and also managed by a central admin
function NANPA.
--Michael Dillon
