[ncc-services-wg] Lawsuits and recovering lost IP addresses

On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 12:53 +0300, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> Not sure which WG to post this so I'll try here.
> 
> Hypothetical case: Suppose there is an ISP that has a /16.  They never 
> informed their customers that the assigned PA address space has to be 
> returned once they disconnect from their service (see 
> http://www.ripe.net/ripe/docs/ipv4-policies.html#pa_pi for how it should be 
> done, but wasn't in the past).
> 
> Now when they see all sorts of announcements of /24s and /22s from their 
> block and they try to recover these lost IPs (contacting the ex-customer or 

Similar things happened here once. But we resolved the matter very easy:
The ex-customer claimed we cannot take his IP's back, and we said "they
are NOT your IP's, you never paid for them, so you never bought them.
they are not even _OUR_ IP's, we borrowed them from IANA through RIPE,
and we have the right to use them as long as we fulfill certain
requirements. You do not fulfill this requirements anymore, so we are
required by IANA to take this IP addresses back from you." End of story.

Maybe same thing applies to you also.

-- 
Tiberiu Ungureanu
Network Engineer iNES Group SRL - Internet Dept.
Tel: +40 21 2322112 / Fax: +40 21 2323461
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