"ownership" on ancient network assignments?

Hi,

Perhaps the best way is to split it in two /17 or 3 /18 and 1 /18 no ?
(depending of the need of each ... )

Or on of the two should perhaps ask for a new assignement ...
Any other suggestions ?
Or perhaps get the /16 by playing a chess game ? :-P

Cheers,



Pascal Gloor
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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Alexander Bochmann [SMTP:bochmann at freinet.de]
> Sent:	Wednesday, May 31, 2000 4:54 PM
> To:	lir-wg at ripe.net
> Subject:	"ownership" on ancient network assignments?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> we are currently noticing a dispute of two companies over a 
> /16 address range assigned to a predecessor of both of them 
> in 1991 (the original company was split some time ago).
> 
> We're not a party in this quarrel, but I'm curious about the 
> status of a network that was assigned such a (comparatively) 
> long time ago. Can someone claim to be legally entitled to own 
> this IP address range? What is likely to happen?
> 
> A. Bochmann
> 
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