On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 01:45 +0000, Jeroen Massar wrote:
David Croft wrote: Legacy addresses though where simply 'allocated'. Nothing else.
If they received them legitimately and they are in active use then they have a responsiblity to keep the contact information up to date, as per their original agreement (presumably... barring some huge historical cock-up).
They effectively don't have any agreement, they just got them.
I say, for every prefix not in the routing table, that is not registered under a paid-up LIR or equivalent, send them repeated automated communications and if they fail to respond, *they* have neglected *their* responsibilities and have lost their right to a loan of a finite pubic resource.
There is no concept of LIR for those assignments. RIRs and thus also LIRs didn't even exist at that time.
Some consider the internet a "virtual society". From that angle it can also be considered fair that the society's laws and regulations to evolve over time. From this perspective legacy-holders have had the opportunity to take part in the process and shouldn't be allowed to ignore it with no consequences. Today it seems much like everyone makes their own rules, or that there are no rules. Either way that is anarchy. What we really need to ask ourselves in the long term is if that is really what we want (considering the perpetual exceptions for legacy-holders that have been suggested in v6 space). //per