RE: Can a customer take IP's with them?

["Michel Py" <michel () arneill-py sacramento ca us>]

VJB> From: Vincent J. Bono
VJB> I think one avenue of approach will be to see if
VJB> ARIN would grant you another contiguous block to
VJB> replace not just what the customer got but the
VJB> entire block they have polluted.

> Edward B. Dreger
> I thought of that, too.  However, that would require
> NAC renumbering an entire /17 because an ex-customer
> is too lazy to renumber a /24.[*]  If NAC's ex-customer
> thinks renumbering a /24 is excessive, what about
> something two orders of magnitude larger?

Indeed, but that's not the worst part. Should this happen, it would mean
that the ex-customer just got PI space for free. Then the floodgates
would open and a bunch of "why-not-me-too" would sue their ISPs to
transform their PA block into a free PI block.

Michel.