[138939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aaron Wendel)
Thu Mar 24 10:27:48 2011
From: "Aaron Wendel"<aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
To: "Leo Bicknell"<bicknell@ufp.org>,
nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 -0500
In-Reply-To: <20110324140821.GA57022@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another
question will be: how is Arin going to handle it?
Im pretty sure that the RSA says that in the event of bankruptcy ips revert
to the Arin pool. I understand that these were legacy addresses but.......
Aaron
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-----Original message-----
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 14:08:21 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5
million
In a message written on Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:32:21AM -0400, Bret Clark
wrote:
> Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting
> service providers much more.
I think the more interesting question is why would Microsoft pay
$7.5 million for something they can, at least for the moment, get
for free.
--
Leo Bicknell - bicknell@ufp.org - CCIE 3440
PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
