RE: Nimda virus and whois search...

[Joel Jaeggli <joelja at darkwing.uoregon.edu>]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Franck Martin wrote:

> 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 ?

steward

Main Entry:	stew·ard·ship
Pronunciation:	'stü-&rd-"ship, 'styü-; 'st(y)u(-&)rd-
Function:	noun
Date:	15th century
1 : the office, duties, and obligations of a steward
2 : the conducting, supervising, or managing of something; especially :
the careful and responsible management of something entrusted to one's
care  <stewardship of our natural resources>

> Franck Martin
> Network and Database Development Officer
> SOPAC South Pacific Applied Geoscience Commission
> Fiji
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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
>

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