The real issue
Jon Lewis
jlewis at lewis.org
Wed Apr 22 03:49:33 UTC 2009
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> arin never (nor do any RIR) guarantee routability, nor do they even a
> method to affect routability of a network.
Sure they do. They can and have put pressure on networks to stop
advertisements from being propagated. What they can actually do if their
bluff is called, I have no idea, but I've seen their influence work.
>> 2) Have the current "owner" pay the market rate for the IP space
>
> ... that's somewhat hard since the current policies don't support
> that, and there is no real legal stance for legacy-allocations... For
> allocated post-legacy-times ARIN can start court proceedings, but ...
> that's a lengthy process and expensive.
Having looked back at old copies of the domain-template.txt and
internet-number-template.txt, I really don't see why one group was
grandfathered in with an indefinite free ride and the other was not at
all.
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