[138953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Thu Mar 24 11:34:19 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <667a9870-5a8c-4344-991c-60ac024d3dd5@blur>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 11:34:13 -0400
To: Aaron Wendel <aaron@wholesaleinternet.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
> That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. =
Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it?
>=20
> 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.......
I wonder if the bankruptcy court agrees with that. Does it have the =
power to order ARIN to accept this? "Send lawyers, guns, and money"...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
