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Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:20:35 -0800
On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote:
The argument could be made that some form of prior agreement exists that the legacy holders have already received that assignment under those terms and that theOwen DeLong wrote:This would create significant legal challenges and costs.I dont understand how they could prevail. Suppose I decided to tell people that as far as I was concerned this 32 bit number up to that 32bit number would be available for their use in whatever manner they wanted, like printing them on t-shirts, and that they would have the privilege of paying me for the guarantee that I would do so uniquely.Barring a prior agreement, what grounds does any third party have to object?
RIRs have accepted a burden to preserve that. Thus, your "Barring a prior agreement" condition is not met.
For that matter, aside from consensus and inertia, what would stop the operator community as a whole from setting up shop with a "forked" registry that had no contractual agreements with anybody prior?
Nothing. However, do you really think that is viable? 1. Consensus would be very hard to achieve.2. Identifying a single entity to manage such a "forked" registry vs. a bunch
of islands of registration would be even harder. 3. Much breakage and instability would likely result. 4. Do you have any illusion that this would do anything other than beg government(s) to try and get involved in regulating address space? Owen
Current thread:
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit, (continued)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 18)
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- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Raymond Macharia (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Lee (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 19)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Buhrmaster, Gary (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 19)