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Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies
From: Michael.Dillon () btradianz com
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 10:00:42 +0000
Do you suppose that if a Microsoft salesman had given me a free copy of Windows back in 1990, I would have a right to use any version of Windows for free forever?I don't think this analogy exactly fits. I'm pretty sure that the
legacy
space holders think of this as: a Microsoft salesman had given them a free copy of Windows back in 1990, and had returned many years later to say that MS had established a registry for all new recipients of Windows that charged a registration fee, and MS wanted them to start
paying
the fee for the free copy as well.
Regardless of what the legacy space users think, if the RIRs decided to sign certificates for use in BGP route for a small fee to recover costs, and if those legacy space holders wish to make use of this new service (like a new version of Windows) then they have to sign up and pay the fees. The fact that they once received a free service does not entitle them to receive *ALL* services for free *FOREVER*. Perhaps this discussion should move to http://www.groklaw.net where people who understand how law works could comment on it. In any case, the bottom line is that the existence of a few legacy space users should not prevent us from leveraging the RIRs to sign certificates, run route registries, run the in-addr.arpa domain etc. --Michael Dillon
Current thread:
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Sandy Murphy (Nov 25)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Michael . Dillon (Nov 28)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies william(at)elan.net (Nov 28)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Sandy Murphy (Nov 28)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Michael . Dillon (Nov 28)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Sandy Murphy (Nov 28)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies bmanning (Nov 28)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Michael . Dillon (Nov 29)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Michael . Dillon (Nov 29)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Richard A Steenbergen (Nov 29)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies David Barak (Nov 29)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Joe Abley (Nov 29)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies bmanning (Nov 28)
- Re: BGP Security and PKI Hierarchies Michael . Dillon (Nov 28)