Can a Customer take their IP's with them? (Court says yes!)

Tue Jun 29 17:14:05 UTC 2004

On Tue, 29 Jun 2004 12:27:43 -0400 "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan at verisign.com> wrote:
> Why would the other side(new provider) violate ARIN policy and route the
> space? The court order doesn't apply to ARIN, or the new 
> provider. I'd say it would be a violation of the agreement, but
> I'm not a lawyer. Just a thought.

i suspect this will turn out to be a non-issue, even of the new provider
routes the blocks and nac.net strictly obeys the requirements of the
TRO. the blocks broken out of the aggregates are probably (i
haven't looked) likely to be dropped by filters at many large
providers, which will seriously limit their utility.

so i think both nac.net and the "new provider" should do the obvious
TRO compliant things while nac.net hashes it out in court. the
customer will likely discover somewhere down the line that they've
shot themselves in the foot, as they won't be able to afford to sue
_everyone_ who is dropping their announcements as part of normal
filter policy going back many years. i don't think anyone should be
changing policies in response to this. let it play out in court.

for most ISPs, "change nothing" seems like the smart response.

richard
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