On 19 feb 2008, at 21:54, Owen DeLong wrote:
At a certain point, the courts will apply the reasonable and prudent
test to the question and likely determine
that someone who received an assignment from SRI-NIC or NSI-NIC had
a reasonable expectation to be
able to use that address space in perpetuity and that whatever
registry had reasonable duty not to duplicate
said assignment.
I'm sorry to have to say this, but that's all a load of crap.
People get their street addresses changed when there is a need. Phone
numbers are changed when this is required to keep the numbering plan
working. Why would people who by the policies that have been in effect
for a decade don't qualify be able to keep using unreasonably large
amounts of address space if this blocks others from connecting to the
network?
ARIN/IANA/whatever should have had the stones to first put a large
amount of pressure on the legacy class A holders and then take them to
court. Declaring defeat before any action is taken is not a reasonable
course of action.
Now it's too late, of course: the lawsuits would take years,
renumbering too.
By the way, I sat down on the couch and turned on the NANOG channel to
watch the IPv6 hour, but the video was fairly flakey. What was it that
Randy found so cool?
