[138952] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Mar 24 11:17:09 2011
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 08:16:27 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
In-Reply-To: <1CE5632A-F1A4-4ABA-B3AF-7C86B754B384@pch.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> 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.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute
