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 > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf -- --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). _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf