At 4:36 PM +0200 8/8/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
On 8-aug-2007, at 12:07, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
Routing certificates are simple. If HP "sells" (lends, leases,
gifts, insert-favourite-transaction-type-here) address space to
someone, HP issues a certificate (or set of certificates) saying
that this is how HP wants the address space to be routed; the fact
that the routes point to non-HP facilities is nothing that the
route certificate verifiers can (or should) care about.
If this is how it works, then apparently you CAN de facto own
address space after all.
The RIRs are working to enable clean transfer of address space
holdings, using X.509 certs. While one could do what what Harald
suggested, the new address space holder would have to worry about HP
revoking the cert it issued to effect the transfer. A "cleaner" model
would call for HP to effect the transfer through a registry, so that
HP is no longer in the cert path.
Steve
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