Encryption, authentication, and digital certificates are nice and all, but these are not pratical for businesses. What happens if the person responsible for this info loses it, leaves the company or is fired? What happens if a disaster takes out the whole building where this info is kept? Can an organization like ARIN tell the CEO of a company that he is not entitled to change his company information because some manager in his IT department lost the password? Unfortunately, as a company owned asset, I think we will find that an official letter from the CEO, on company letterhead will count as the supreme authentication for updating information with any of these organizations.

As for the companies that grabbed some of the original Class A and B networks, they should follow the lead of companies like IBM, who realized they had way more than they need, so they started selling parts of their blocks like condo units in a building.

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