On Sunday, March 09, 1997 1:09 AM, Brett L. Hawn[SMTP:blh@nol.net] wrote: @ On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, David R. Conrad wrote: <snip> @ @ Say I 'own' the fictional block 223.101.0.0, its swipped to me, everything @ is in order as it should be. I decide for whatever reason to turn off my @ routers, sell my equipment and move to the Caymans to enjoy the rest of my @ life. I now have two choices, 1: Return my block to ARIN, or 2: Sell my @ block to someone else and make a small (or large for that matter, I'm sure I @ could sell it for a interesting sum of money) profit. @ @ scenario 1: @ @ It gets returned and some other poor fool has to jump through flaming hoops @ and surive a pool of toxic waste to get a few IPs. @ @ scenario 2: @ @ I change all the records to point to them, swip it out to them, basically do @ everything needed to make them the legitimate 'owners' of that block, they @ pay me a nice lump of cash and we're both happy. @ @ As I see it, changing ownership of IPs is no different than changing @ ownership of a domain. @ Scenario 3: You sell the entire company before turning off the routers and the block stays with the operation on a lease arrangement. It eventually gets absorbed into a larger ISP and lost on the books in the mega transaction. Scenario 4: You move to the Cayman Islands and set up a competing "NIC". One of the NICs currently operates out of the Seychelles, so maybe the Caymans are the next best place to start an address NIC. Question: When companies like MCI and Bellcore get bought, do they have to turn all of their blocks back into the "NIC" and start over...;-) -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)