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Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:08:20 -0500
Owen DeLong wrote:
This would create significant legal challenges and costs.
I dont understand how they could prevail. Suppose I decided to tell people that as far as I was concerned this 32 bit number up to that 32bit number would be available for their use in whatever manner they wanted, like printing them on t-shirts, and that they would have the privilege of paying me for the guarantee that I would do so uniquely.
Barring a prior agreement, what grounds does any third party have to object?For that matter, aside from consensus and inertia, what would stop the operator community as a whole from setting up shop with a "forked" registry that had no contractual agreements with anybody prior?
Current thread:
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit, (continued)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Rod Beck (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 18)
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- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Raymond Macharia (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Lee (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 19)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Buhrmaster, Gary (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)