If it weren't effectively property there wouldn't be firms listing large blocks of v4 space as an asset while going out of business, and there wouldn't be brokers specializing in acquiring and reselling this space. And yet in the RIR paperwork this is a simple reassignment of a netblocks registration. --srs ________________________________ From: anti-abuse-wg <anti-abuse-wg-bounces@ripe.net> on behalf of Töma Gavrichenkov <ximaera@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2019 5:21 AM To: Ronald F. Guilmette Cc: anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [anti-abuse-wg] 2019-04 New Policy Proposal (Validation of "abuse-mailbox") On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 1:13 AM Ronald F. Guilmette <rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote:
[..] IPv4 real estate
IP addresses are not property. Thinking otherwise results in hilariously bad engineering practices (and, in turn, hardly any better policy proposals). Do not do so. -- Töma