On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 04:18:01PM -0500, Dan White said:
Make a public example of the situation. Assign such a block to an ARIN member with extensive legal resources who's willing to send some nasty letters out, and back it up with court action to establish legal precedence.
Or ARIN could do so itself on the grounds of breach of contract.
Of course, said block should clearly fall within ARIN's domain, backed up with a signed contract from the original party.
Many of these outfits already have cashflow issue - suing them into the ground when they're already underwater is probably a cash-losing situation for ARIN. And I bet other orgs who are in good financial standing dont want to fund a suit against a judgement-proof org and lose money pushing lawyers around just for fun - not until IPs are worth $10+/IP/month at least, anyway. Then the lawsuits might be worth the investment. Pretty awesome: I see a new industry forming: IP REPO MEN. (Dont know if we can cast Emilio Estevez in th movie version, he's a bit too old now...) /kc -- Ken Chase - ken@heavycomputing.ca - +1 416 897 6284 - Toronto CANADA Heavy Computing - Clued bandwidth, colocation and managed linux VPS @151 Front St. W.