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Re: IPv4

2007-08-09 06:36:37
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:25:13PM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote:
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.


        and they would then not have to worry about the RIR revoking the cert?

--bill


Steve

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--bill

Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and
certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise).


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