[138955] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Mar 24 11:42:49 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:42:35 +0000
In-Reply-To: <m28vw4pn04.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 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.
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canute
Thank you Randy. Give Canute a community-developed set of marching
orders, and make the ocean a little more pliable and you might have=20
something there.
As usual, I will simply point out to folks that ARIN will indeed=20
administer the policy as adopted, and will explain it as necessary in=20
various courtrooms. I ask that the community spend its time thinking=20
about what policies are indeed desirable, and make sure those are=20
reflected in the adopted policies. That's the first priority in=20
making sure that we're doing the right thing and our efforts are=20
productive and useful to the community.
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
