On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:25:13PM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote:
> At 4:36 PM +0200 8/8/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> >On 8-aug-2007, at 12:07, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> >
> >>Routing certificates are simple. If HP "sells" (lends, leases,
> >>gifts, insert-favourite-transaction-type-here) address space to
> >>someone, HP issues a certificate (or set of certificates) saying
> >>that this is how HP wants the address space to be routed; the fact
> >>that the routes point to non-HP facilities is nothing that the
> >>route certificate verifiers can (or should) care about.
> >
> >If this is how it works, then apparently you CAN de facto own
> >address space after all.
> >
>
> The RIRs are working to enable clean transfer of address space
> holdings, using X.509 certs. While one could do what what Harald
> suggested, the new address space holder would have to worry about HP
> revoking the cert it issued to effect the transfer. A "cleaner" model
> would call for HP to effect the transfer through a registry, so that
> HP is no longer in the cert path.
and they would then not have to worry about the RIR revoking the cert?
--bill
>
> Steve
>
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--bill
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