Stephen Sprunk wrote:
So? The RIRs and ICANN have deep pockets.
SCO had "deep" pockets too. IBM, Novell, etc. had much, much deeper
pockets. Do you really think ARIN or ICANN could take on titans such
as GE, IBM, AT&T, Xerox, HP, Apple, Ford, Halliburton, Eli Lilly,
Prudential, and Merck? Even _one_ of them? ARIN would be squashed
like a bug. Not to mention the entire weight of the USG if ARIN tries
to mess with _their_ 13 /8s.
All of which is moot. The amount of money it would cost to litigate
this is irrelevant, because there's no way that taking this to courts
could result in any relief for the Internet before IPv4 space is exhausted.
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