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On Feb 19, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Joe Maimon wrote: The argument could be made that some form of prior agreement exists that the legacy holders have already received that assignment under those terms and that the RIRs have accepted a burden to preserve that. Thus, your "Barring a prior agreement" condition is not met. For that matter, aside from consensus and inertia, what would stop the operator community as a whole from setting up shop with a "forked" registry that had no contractual agreements with anybody prior? Nothing. However, do you really think that is viable? 1. Consensus would be very hard to achieve. 2. Identifying a single entity to manage such a "forked" registry vs. a bunch of islands of registration would be even harder. 3. Much breakage and instability would likely result. 4. Do you have any illusion that this would do anything other than beg government(s) to try and get involved in regulating address space? Owen
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