44/8

[nanog at as397444.net (Matt Corallo)]

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 at 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