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<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>Are IP addresses property or public resources? </div></div></blockquote><br></div></div></div><div>ARIN holds that IP address space is not property but is managed as a </div><div>public resource. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:7.5pt;line-height:13.5pt;background:
white"><span style="font-size: 10pt; ">The is also consistent with the Council of Europe's <span style="background:white">Declaration of the Committee of Ministers on the
management of the Internet protocol address resources in the public
interest (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 29 September 2010</span><br>
<span style="background:white">at the 1094th meeting of the Ministers'
Deputies)<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/s.tamanikaiwaimaro/My%20Documents/Connect/Impact%20of%20New%20York%20decision%20on%20RIRs%20all%20over%20the%20world%20and%20considerations%20for%20Connect.doc#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">[…]Paragraph <span style="background:white">11 of the Ministerial Text where the Committee of
Ministers, therefore, declares the following:-</span><br>
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<i><span style="background:yellow">- Internet protocol address resources should
be regarded as shared<br>
<b><u>public resources</u></b> and <b><u>allocated and managed in the
public interest</u></b> by the</span><br>
entities entrusted with these tasks, taking into account the present and<br>
future needs of Internet users;</i></span>
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</div></div></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>Address holders may have certain rights (such as the </div>
<div>right to be the registrant of the address block, the right to transfer the </div><div>registration, etc.) but these rights intersect with additional rights to the</div><div>the same address blocks which are held by the community (such as the </div>
<div>right to visibility into the public portion of registrations). It is the registry </div><div>policies (set by the community via open and transparent processes) that </div><div>governs the intersection and application of these rights.</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is working quite well and is more open and transparent than most governance mechanisms, in my view. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div><br></div><div>Regarding what it is needed with respect to law enforcement, I do believe </div><div>(personally; ARIN has not considered this matter) that there could be some </div><div>
use for an appropriate framework for handling law enforcement requests for</div><div>transnational orders affecting the Internet. </div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is of interest as we are preparing and designing coordination mechanisms within Fiji and externally etc and is something that should be clearly mapped etc. </div>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div> I'll note that such a frameworkwould facilitate each country adopting its own specific laws to implement those aspects of the framework compatible with their worldview. </div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>I am much less sanguine about the prospects for a common set of global mechanisms, </div>
<div>due to the difficulty in defining any mechanisms that operate across countries.</div><div><br></div><font color="#888888"><div>/John</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></font></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all">
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