Re: IP allocations, renumbering, and RFC 2050

[Karl Denninger <karl () mcs net>]

You're missing the point.  RFC2008 is the one which recognizes legacy
delegations as providing ownership (and therefore property rights).

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On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 02:36:06AM +0000, Bradley Reynolds wrote:
> > But seriously I would suggest that you would have some expectation
> > of rights due to RFC2050 as much as any properity rights exist for
> > so called legacy addresses.
> After taking a cursory glance at RFC2050, i happened upon
> the ambiguous and unintelligable wording 'best current
> practice'.  Even though the definition of this term was thoroughly
> obfuscated, i did not find LAW or JESUS SPAKE preceding any
> of the edicts contained within the mentioned rfc.
>
>
> > At any rate it sounds like a unilaterial contract change by CW,
> > which may be unenforcable.  I'd just continue to announce the
> > more specifics for 6 months just to make it as difficult as possible
> > for CW to re-use them.
> No one will listen to your announcements because you don't matter.
>
> > It won't win CW and friends that's for sure. (hello AGIS/Net99, anyone?)
> you don't need friends when people _need_ to reach your network.
>
>
>
> On an operationally related question:
>
> Do grammar and nanog go hand-in-hand or is nanog becoming (has always 
> been?) a forum for the functionally illiterate?
>
> BR