Owen said:
>Sean said:
>> Hm, routing wars. Fun stuff. Expect much heat on this shortly...
>>
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>The question boils down to who really does own the address space, and
>frankly, the fact that money changed hands causes me to lean more towads
>the person who paid.Well, but was the changing of money for a *purchase* or a *lease* ? The coming
CIDRization seems to lend itself more toward leasing your IPs from your provider
than purchasing them... much like small companies rarely buy a suite in a larger
building, instead they lease... with IPs though, the length of term of the lease
would be something to the effect of 'while getting service from the same provider'.--Zachary
Er... Remeber that this works for providers as well. They don't "own" the CIDR
blocks they have either. They have them on loan from the address registries.