RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

[Franck Martin <Franck at SOPAC.ORG>]

I know that nobody Owns an IP, it is like Owning water and oxygen. Althought
we have water taxes but not yet oxygen taxes. It will come soon at the rate
the World pollutes (nobody talk about the Toxic Texan anymore)

Seriously, what is the appropriate term: owner, rentee, leaser ?

Franck Martin
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SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
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-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Braden [mailto:braden at ISI.EDU]
Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 3:33 
To: ietf at ietf.org; franck at sopac.org
Subject: Re: Nimda virus and whois search...



  *> 
  *> While I was implementing a perl script to catch nimda virus on Apache
  *> (www.digitalcon.ca/nimda/) and send an e-mail to the owner of the IP, I

It will come as a great surprise to many people to learn that someone
owns IP.  At one point, some eager beavers in the US government thought
they owned it, since they paid for its development.  But cooler heads
prevailed..

Bob Braden