[138944] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Thu Mar 24 10:50:47 2011
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <4D8B57DB.7080602@redpill-linpro.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 07:48:24 -0700
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Tore Anderson wrote:
> They can only get them for free from ARIN if they can document
> an immediate demand. Perhaps they don't have an immediate demand=85
They can only get them _at all_ if they can document need. All receipt =
of address space, whether from the free-pool or through a transfer, is =
needs-based. Anything else would be removing a critical resource from =
use.
-Bill
