[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)]

    > From: Jack Haverty <jack at 3kitty.org>

    >> If you "use" that address range, but no one sends you traffic for it,
    >> and no one accepts traffic from you that uses it, what does "use"
    >> actually mean?

    > Perhaps it means that you sue someone to enforce your rights? 

Don't forget that due to the international nature of the Internet, you might
have to sue people in all sorts of jurisdictions if you resort to this
approach...

Suits over DNS entries have often worked when filed just in the US, because
ICANN, IANA, the main registry (VeriSign), many of the top-level servers, etc
are all here.

Whether the 'sue someone' approach would work for addresses (i.e. whether ISPs
around the world would voluntarily follow the lead of a court order in any
particular country, when it comes to entering routes in their routers) is an
interesting question...

	Noel