I'm not a lawyer and cannot answer the questions you pose.
However I fail to see why the interesting legal principles you are
espousing have anything to do with the original topic of this thread: an
upstream revoking an assignment upon the severing of its relationship with
its downstream.
th what you've said:
> ARIN policies are good for those trying to obtain appropriate assignments.
> But the more basic argument of "will I make an assignment to my
> downstream" or "will I allow this assignment to remain in effect" has
> nothing to do with what yo
DS writes:
> Nonetheless, ARIN is in the business of requiring compliance with its
> policies as a condition of IP address allocations.
In the real world ARIN only looks at existing assignments to judge the
worthiness of an additional address space request. It doesn't look at nor
care about non-
Just because policies are in place that suggest an assignment may or may
not be justified is wholly irrelevant to whether or not that assignment
takes place (or in the case of the original thread, stays in place). ARIN
is not in the business of saying "do" or "do not".
Ralph wrote:
> >>Is that
> What it tells me is I should have wasted enough space to consume 8 /24s
> long ago, so I could get a /20 directly from ARIN.
You are correct! Please drive through.
/david
Hello Ralph,
> Is that true? I thought the space belongs to ARIN, and they loan it to
> certain parties. Those parties can use the IPs in accordance with ARIN
> rules.
The way you've written the above statements makes them true. However, such
a relationship does not extend to the issue you're
> And once word got out that UU would take calls from anyone, every
> schmuck, crackpot, and prank call would be reporting something
> somewhere.
Paging Jim Fleming. Jim Fleming please pick up the white courtesy phone.
