Hi, shouldn't the same logic of ownership of DNS domain names apply to inetnum address space?
Best regards, Jonas Sent from my iPad > On 02 Mar 2016, at 07:12, Karl Auer <ka...@biplane.com.au> wrote: > >> On Wed, 2016-03-02 at 00:44 -0500, William Herrin wrote: >> Do I have the legal right to exclude others from announcing my block >> of IP addresses to the public Internet routing tables? It's not well >> tested in court but the odds are exceptionally strong that I do. > > If I own some property - say a field - the location of that field is > with certain rare exceptions public information. I as the owner cannot > enforce a requirement on you to NOT tell people where my field is. I > can't demand that you NOT build roads past it, or that you NOT put up > signs saying how to get to my field, or even that you NOT tell people > who owns the field. I have the right to exclusive use of the property, > but I have no rights to information about the property, nor any > property rights outside the boundary of the property. > > Testing in court the idea that you may not advertise my routes would be > a fascinating exercise. If you falsely advertised them it would be a > different matter. > > Has this sort of thing been tested in the courts at all? In any > jurisdiction? > >> Indeed, the whole point of registration is to facilitate >> determination >> of -who- has the exclusive right over -which- blocks of addresses. > > The problem is what rights we are talking about. I would say that > practically speaking the only real right here is the right to configure > an address on an interface. But anyone else can send packets to an > address, or advertise to others the direction of travel towards that > network. Malicious activity excluded of course - DoS attacks and so on, > but I think the issues there are different. Also, contractually > regulated relationships are different - if I connect something up to > ISPX and have a contract with ISPX to NOT advertise the route to me, > then ISPX is constrained. > > Regards, K. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Karl Auer (ka...@biplane.com.au) > http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer > http://twitter.com/kauer389 > > GPG fingerprint: E00D 64ED 9C6A 8605 21E0 0ED0 EE64 2BEE CBCB C38B > Old fingerprint: 3C41 82BE A9E7 99A1 B931 5AE7 7638 0147 2C3C 2AC4 > > >
