On Feb 13, 2014, at 3:05 PM, Morizot Timothy S <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm. I'll also note that transfer of title for a car you own is not the best > analogy. Even when we obtained our legacy allocations back in the early 90s, > they weren't "sold" to us. They remained an Internet number resource > allocated to us for our use. So the better analogy would perhaps be trying to > transfer a car lease you currently hold to another person. (It's definitely > still a flawed analogy, but possibly better than the title transfer analogy.)
Several folks have noted that these analogies are all imperfect, and it's even worse than described when it comes IP address blocks issued because they are unique only because of the fact that they were issued out of a particular registry. You can use any number you wish in your routers, and you can even run your own registry and coordinate unique [within your registry] block assignments (and there was at least one industries that did this for their own private VPN-like connectivity among suppliers), but what someone refers to as their IP address block is actually their "IP address block assignment" from the Internet Registry system, i.e. one particular coordinated registry intended for general purpose IP assignments of global scope. This means that the registration in the registry is actually the only tangible entity involved here; i.e. back to analogies, there is no car at all - just the registration. References that imply your "IP address block" is a license for use on the global Internet is clearly specious, since those routers are operated by others who never granted such rights. Aside from the uniqueness provided by the registration entry and rights to same, it's hard to see what folks are trying to "sell"... FYI, /John John Curran President and CEO ARIN _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
