On 9/18/12, Mike Hale <eyeronic.design@gmail.com> wrote:
I can accept the legal argument (and I'm assuming that, in the original contracts for IP space, there wasn't a clause that allowed Internic or its successor to reclaim space).
Assume you have a public IPv4 assignment, and someone else starts routing your assignment... "legitimately" or not, RIR allocation transferred to them, or not. There might be a record created in a database, and/or internet routing tables regarding someone else using the same range for a connected network. But your unconnected network, is unaffected. You are going to have a hard time getting a court to take your case, if the loss/damages to your operation are $0, because your network is unconnected, and its operation is not impaired by someone else's use, and the address ranges' appearance in the global tables. -- -JH