[address-policy-wg] Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources

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On Mar 11, 2008, at 6:49 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
> [..]
>> My knowledge of the Germanic languages is not good enough to  
>> really make
>> sense of the Dutch legislation. I wonder if someone who speaks  
>> Dutch, or
>> who is a native speaker of German or a Scandinavian language,  
>> could have
>> a look at the text of the Dutch law here
>> <http://www.st-ab.nl/wetten/ 
>> 0490_Wet_financiele_dienstverlening_Wfd.htm>
>
> "Vervallen m.i.v. 1 januari 2007"
>
> aka
>
> "Expired per the 1st of Januari 2007"
>
> The following one is apparently still valid though:
> http://www.st-ab.nl/wetten/1064_Wet_op_het_financieel_toezicht_Wft.htm
>
> There is no mention at all about virtual property or the 'owning'  
> of numbers though. A zipcode is no property, nor is a bankaccount  
> number etc.
>
> We have this IANA&RIR system in place and the only reason that it  
> works is that the largest amount of ISP's who are on this thing  
> that we call "The Internet" find that the IP numbers they are  
> giving out are the ones they use. Anybody though can simply take  
> whatever number they want and given that enough ISPs start talking  
> to it, that will simply work, but they have to convince the largest  
> amount to do that though.
>
> A number can't be a property --> there is nothing that law can do  
> against handling in IP addresses.

Regardless of what one thinks about the first proposition, the second  
does not follow.
There are a number of countries in which certain uses of certain  
numbers is forbidden, and punishable under law.

TV

> Also note that that 'trading' in IP addresses and other resources  
> already happens for a long long time, eg when company A buys  
> company B solely for the addresses and ASN's etc etc.
>
> Nice example from ebay:
> http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/evidence.lasso?rokso_id=ROK2594
>
> Greets,
>  Jeroen
>

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