[arin-ppml] Support for 2015-5 (Expand permitted out-of-region use of IPv4 space)

William Herrin bill at herrin.us
Sat Sep 19 18:45:00 EDT 2015


On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 6:26 PM, Mueller, Milton L
<milton.mueller at pubpolicy.gatech.edu> wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> All space vehicles (and airplanes and ships) are in one or another terrestrial
>> country's legal jurisdiction. Your moon base would fly the flag of a country in
>> one of the RIR's jurisdictions.
>
> This isn't true. Take a look at the 1966 Outer Space Treaty, which posits that " outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means."
> http://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/spacelaw/treaties/introouterspacetreaty.html
>
> It isn't true of the oceans, either. The "high seas" are a sovereignty-free zone. Parts of Antarctica are, too.

The territories are not subject to national appropriation. The
hardware and facilities operate under the laws of the nation which
sanctioned them.

All that Apollo equipment left on the moon still belongs to the U.S.
The ground it's sitting on does not. Get it?


> Apparently, what you think of as science fiction is already here.

Don't be such an insufferable smartass ... when you're wrong.

-Bill


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