[ppml] Resurrecting ULA Central [was: Re: Policy Proposal 2006-2: Micro-allocations for Internal

[George Kuzmowycz]

David Williamson <dlw+arin at tellme.com> wrote on 04/25/2006 9:42:40 AM:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 08:12:10AM +0000,
bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com 
> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 04:27:06PM -0400, Jason Schiller
(schiller at uu.net) 
>> wrote:
>> 	perhaps i was unclear.  the ULA proposal from the IETF
>> 	create property rights in IP address space, a concept that
>> 	to date, is antithical to the RIR premise that IP space
>> 	is roughly analogous to frequencies... e.g. can I OWN
>> 	the frequency band between 10.8GHz and 11.2Ghz and require
>> 	anyone who uses it to pay me royalties on a global basis?
> 
> I haven't read the IETF proposal, but I'm hoping that we can simply
> link this hypothetical internal infrastructure allocation to holding
an
> AS.  In that way, there's no ownership created, since you certainly
> don't own an AS number.  The RIRs would still be the allocators of
> space out of the global reserved block for this purpose:  they
simply
> provide stewardship of the chunk associated with the ASNs allocated
to
> them.
> 
> Sounds like I better go read the draft.  I agree that ownership
rights
> would be a problem

Why is the (potential) ownership of IP addresses a Bad Thing?