On Sunday, March 09, 1997 4:35 PM, Stephen Sprunk[SMTP:spsprunk@paranet.com] wrote: <snip> @ Did you sign any such contract when you got your IP addresses? Are there @ any laws in your jurisdiction stating the ownership and appropriate use of @ your addresses? @ People who are homesteading may not have "signed" anything. Other people may have signed papers and paid money. @ There is no workable analogy in this case because there are no contracts and @ no laws regarding anything on the Net at this point. Until ARIN makes you @ sign an acceptable-use agreement (and makes pre-1996 "owners" sign it too), @ there can be no enforceable policy other than what the core router owners @ decide. Routability determines address assignment far more definitively @ than a NIC board room full of cigar smoke and $10k fees. @ @ Stephen Sprunk How do you know...."there are no contracts and no laws"...? -- Jim Fleming Unir Corporation e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net JimFleming@unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)