On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 06:49, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:48:14 MDT, John Neiberger <John.Neiberger@efirstbank.com> said:
IANAL, but it appears that from a contractual perspective it is clear that ARIN retains all 'ownership' rights to the address space. They subdivide it to those who are willing to contractually agree to their conditions, but the ownership is never transferred. I would think that that is an important distinction to make.
IANAL either, but I believe that ARIN doesn't claim to own 32-bit integers. What they're providing is a *registry service* to keep track of what entities are using what ranges of 32-bit integers, to prevent duplication. There's no *requirement* that you use any particular address range, except that by community agreement, nobody wants to deal with non-registered addresses.
If ARIN actually *owned* the address space, we'd not have the perennial flame-war regarding 1918-space source addresses on the global net - everybody would do a really fast and good job of implementing ingress/egress filtering because ARIN could sue you for using their addresses... :)
I think you meant IANA there, not ARIN ;) Indeed nobody will complain if you setup your own RIR and start handing out addresses, it is a registry and those work as long as common believe is that they are the central sources of authority. The same goes for DNS and basically everything else. On another, related note: RFC2544 (C.2.2): 8<-------------------------- The network addresses 192.18.0.0 through 198.19.255.255 are have been assigned to the BMWG by the IANA for this purpose. This assignment was made to minimize the chance of conflict in case a testing device were to be accidentally connected to part of the Internet. The specific use of the addresses is detailed below. -------------------------->8 Thus 192.18.0.0/15 is IANA ?reserved? for the BMWG (btw note also the "are have been" ;), but in whois.arin.net: 8<-------------------------- OrgName: Sun Microsystems, Inc OrgID: SUN Address: 4150 Network Circle City: Santa Clara StateProv: CA PostalCode: 95054 Country: US NetRange: 192.18.0.0 - 192.18.194.255 CIDR: 192.18.0.0/17, 192.18.128.0/18, 192.18.192.0/23, 192.18.194.0/24 NetName: SUN1 NetHandle: NET-192-18-0-0-1 Parent: NET-192-0-0-0-0 NetType: Direct Allocation NameServer: NS1.SUN.COM NameServer: NS2.SUN.COM NameServer: NS7.SUN.COM NameServer: NS8.SUN.COM Comment: RegDate: 1985-09-09 Updated: 2003-10-10 ------------------------->8 The RFC is from 1999, according to the above Sun owns and is using that block a lot longer.... what is correct? RFC1944 (from 1996) also notes that block. RFC1062 (from 1988) then again mentions SUN there ;) Anyone who has some thoughts about this? Because a /15 is a very nice testrange if you don't want to break connectivity to existing rfc1918 addresses and of course not to forget SUN if you like watching pictures of highend servers to name an example :) Greets, Jeroen