<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Mark,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>A more 'correct' analogy would be as follows:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>�� �Let's say you win a judgement against another party where the court essentially awards you all the assets of the�</DIV><DIV>�� �defendant. One of the assets is a paging company. So,� you hike down to the FCC and want the radio licenses for the business</DIV><DIV>�� �re-registered�in your name, you present a valid court order to show that the court has awarded you title to the assets. In fact,</DIV><DIV>�� �you present a court order specifically ordering the FCC to re-register the licensed spectrum to you.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>How can the FCC refuse? Any court with proper jurisdiction certainly has the ability to assess damages and specify remedies for those</DIV><DIV>damages. A station license or spectrum - even though is not actual ownership, but a lease or license - is an asset and routinely are sold</DIV><DIV>for millions, even billions of dollars.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>More to the point, how can ARIN refuse such an order?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Joe McGuckin</DIV><DIV>ViaNet Communications</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="mailto:joe@via.net">joe@via.net</A></DIV><DIV>650-207-0372 cell</DIV><DIV>650-213-1302 office</DIV><DIV>650-969-2124 fax</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 8, 2006, at 11:57 AM, Mark Kent wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Joe McGuckin typed:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">2) Why does ARIN believe that it can ignore a court order?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Maybe because ARIN wasn't a party to the original proceedings</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">that generated that order?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Let's say you're eating lunch one day, minding your own business,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and a sheriff comes up with an official looking document and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">says "You need to hand your car over to Fred..." because,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">unknown to you, Fred and Barney just finished court proceedings</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">where the judge ruled that Barney had to give Fred "his" car,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">even though that car was owned by you and just loaned to Barney.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Not a great analogy, because of the whole pink slip thing,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">but you get the point.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-mark</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>