I presume they'd be more than happy to if some HAM's were to file a lawsuit against ARIN (not entirely an un-serious suggestion), but, short that, what do they care if they cooperated in stealing some otherwise-unused IPs and giving them to Amazon?
Matt > On Jul 18, 2019, at 23:44, William Waites <w...@styx.org> wrote: > >> On 07/18, Christopher Morrow wrote: >> >> My guess is that arin needed more than just: "can control routing for >> a few bits of time". >> I don't really know, but I hope they had more requirements than that :) > > It certainly doesn't look like it... > > My understanding is that 44/8 was, very much like different pieces of the > radio > spectrum, collective common property of amateur radio operators. That an > organisation was needed to operate a registry because of the nature of IP > address allocation does not amount to ownership or the right to sell anything. > This is exactly analogous to the fact that the ARRL (or RAC, or RSGB etc) does > not own and cannot sell radio spectrum allocated for amateur use. > > This is not a legitimate sale. ARIN should reverse the changes in its record, > and the ARDC should give the "several million dollars" back to Amazon. > > Then we can decide, openly and transparently, if, for example, some piece of > 44/8 should be returned to IANA for allocation to the RIRs. > > Greetings, > William Waites VE3HW
