> Behalf Of Spencer Dawkins > > Generally, the existence of an assignment authority does > encourage its > > (proper) use - mostly for the reason you state above. Just > as "nobody > > will want to accept an official registration polluted by > prior use", > > "nobody" (deliberately in quotes) will want to attempt to > establish an > > unofficial registration using the approach you've > described. Doing so > > is - at the very least - going to adversely affect > popularity and is > > very likely to result in interference and potentially even > litigation. > > "litigation"? > > Do we have prior art that this is a likely result? DNS administration has certainly not been a litigation-free zone... I can't quite see a circumstance in which IANA could block the use of an unauthorized port assignment, or even the legal theory under which a claim might be made. There might be a claim if someone tried to falsely claim that a code assignment was authorized by IANA. If all the parties involved in a communication agree on the use of the assignment I can't see a hacking type claim. Regardless I don't think IANA has the resources to make this type of legal threat if it wanted to. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf