On 8/29/21 11:42, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
It would seem reasonable to leave the whole issue up to the courts, instead of engaging in contempt of foreign courts, and to stop the vigilante justice against any of the parties, especially the end users who are not even a party to this whole dispute.
The end users are an indirect party. Assume someone were in the business of stealing cars, forging their titles, and selling them to innocent third parties. A police officer pulling someone over for speeding might compare the VIN on the title to that on the car and discover that it was stolen. The stolen property would be returned to its owner and the end user purchaser would be out of luck other than having recourse against the thief. The same principle applies to someone who innocently accepts counterfeit money. If the Internet community as a whole or significant players therein were to treat these number resources as stolen property fraudulently obtained under false pretenses and stop routing those netblocks, the end users would indeed suffer just like the person who unwittingly bought a stolen car or accepted a counterfeit bill. The end user would pursue recourse against the party who rented or sold the fraudulently obtained netblocks and the business model of obtaining number resources under false pretenses solely to rent or resell at a profit would collapse. -- Jay Hennigan - jay@west.net Network Engineering - CCIE #7880 503 897-8550 - WB6RDV