On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Franck Martin wrote:
I know that nobody Owns an IP, it is like Owning water and oxygen. Althought
we have water taxes but not yet oxygen taxes. It will come soon at the rate
the World pollutes (nobody talk about the Toxic Texan anymore)
Seriously, what is the appropriate term: owner, rentee, leaser ?
steward
Main Entry: stew·ard·ship
Pronunciation: 'stü-&rd-"ship, 'styü-; 'st(y)u(-&)rd-
Function: noun
Date: 15th century
1 : the office, duties, and obligations of a steward
2 : the conducting, supervising, or managing of something; especially :
the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's
care <stewardship of our natural resources>
Franck Martin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Braden [mailto:braden(_at_)ISI(_dot_)EDU]
Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 3:33
To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org; franck(_at_)sopac(_dot_)org
Subject: Re: Nimda virus and whois search...
*>
*> While I was implementing a perl script to catch nimda virus on Apache
*> (www.digitalcon.ca/nimda/) and send an e-mail to the owner of the IP, I
It will come as a great surprise to many people to learn that someone
owns IP. At one point, some eager beavers in the US government thought
they owned it, since they paid for its development. But cooler heads
prevailed..
Bob Braden
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