[128599] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lightly used IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Aug 13 13:46:21 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100813173652.84198.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 10:44:12 -0700
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org, rs@seastrom.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 13, 2010, at 10:36 AM, John Levine wrote:
>> =
http://www.circleid.com/posts/psst_interested_in_some_lightly_used_ip_addr=
esses/
>> Discuss. :-)
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> I don't entirely understand the process. Here's the flow chart as far
> as I've figured it out:
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> 1. A sells a /20 of IPv4 space to B for, say, $5,000
>=20
> 2. A tells ARIN to transfer the chunk to B
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> 3. ARIN says no, B hasn't shown that they need it
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> 4. A and B say screw it, and B announces the space anyway
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> 5. ???
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> R's,
> John
6. ARIN receives a fraud/abuse complaint that A's space is being =
used by B.
7. ARIN discovers that A is no longer using the space in accordance =
with their RSA
8. ARIN reclaims the space and A and B are left to figure out who =
owes what to whom.
