<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; ">Hi folks,</span><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">I am in the process of writing a research paper for an Internet Law seminar at FIU Law and have a few questions for those of you with enough institutional memory to remember how IPv4 address allocations were first handed out:</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">1. Who 'owned' IP addresses ab initio? Were IP addresses 'property' of any one entity or person or agency? What is the authority ICANN / IANA had to allocate these addresses if they are not 'theirs.'</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">2. Initially, were large blocks of IPv4 addresses 'handed out' with a complete ownership interest to their recipients? For example, when you received an /16, was it yours to transfer to <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> <span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>other entities if you pleased? Could you have transferred sub-allocations of your /16 to other entities who weren't your customers/connectors?</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">3. Were the initial IPv4 allocations rolled into RIRs/ICANN at any point? If so, under what legal framework?</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; ">Thanks all for your thoughts/comments,</div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><br></div><div style="font-size: 12px; "><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Ernesto M. Rubi</div><div>Sr. Network Engineer</div><div>AMPATH/CIARA</div><div>Florida International Univ, Miami</div><div>Reply-to: <a href="mailto:ernesto@cs.fiu.edu">ernesto@cs.fiu.edu</a></div></div><div><br></div></div></span></span></div></div></body></html>