I presume they'd be more than happy to if some HAM's were to file a lawsuit against ARIN (not entirely an un-serious suggestion), but, short that, what do they care if they cooperated in stealing some otherwise-unused IPs and giving them to Amazon? Matt
On Jul 18, 2019, at 23:44, William Waites <ww@styx.org> wrote:
On 07/18, Christopher Morrow wrote:
My guess is that arin needed more than just: "can control routing for a few bits of time". I don't really know, but I hope they had more requirements than that :)
It certainly doesn't look like it...
My understanding is that 44/8 was, very much like different pieces of the radio spectrum, collective common property of amateur radio operators. That an organisation was needed to operate a registry because of the nature of IP address allocation does not amount to ownership or the right to sell anything. This is exactly analogous to the fact that the ARRL (or RAC, or RSGB etc) does not own and cannot sell radio spectrum allocated for amateur use.
This is not a legitimate sale. ARIN should reverse the changes in its record, and the ARDC should give the "several million dollars" back to Amazon.
Then we can decide, openly and transparently, if, for example, some piece of 44/8 should be returned to IANA for allocation to the RIRs.
Greetings, William Waites VE3HW