[ih] Some Questions over IPv4 Ownership

[Craig Simon]

Hello Ernesto,

Much of the historical background is discussed in my Ph.D. dissertation, 
which you can find at http://www.rkey.com/essays/diss.pdf.

Craig Simon

On 10/11/2010 4:59 PM, Ernie Rubi wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> 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:
>
> 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.'
>
> 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 other entities if you
> pleased? Could you have transferred sub-allocations of your /16 to other
> entities who weren't your customers/connectors?
>
> 3. Were the initial IPv4 allocations rolled into RIRs/ICANN at any
> point? If so, under what legal framework?
>
> Thanks all for your thoughts/comments,
>
> Ernesto M. Rubi
> Sr. Network Engineer
> AMPATH/CIARA
> Florida International Univ, Miami
> Reply-to: ernesto at cs.fiu.edu <mailto:ernesto at cs.fiu.edu>
>