[138941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Mar 24 10:44:28 2011
To: Aaron Wendel <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:43:54 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT, Aaron Wendel said:
> 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.......
The *important* question is - do they *remain* legacy addresses under the
legacy address rules after the Microsoft acquisition, and thus re-sellable at a
later date? If so, we may have seen the first case of IP address speculation,
and the start of the bubble. I don't want to see how this bubble bursts..
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