[138956] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mikea)
Thu Mar 24 11:45:26 2011
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:43:39 -0500
From: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
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> > 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.......
>
> 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"...
Good question. Isn't ARIN a US corporation? <lynx> Yep; incorporated in
Virginia. At the very least, it might be ... interesting for a Canadian
court to try to enforce an order on a US corporation with no Canadian
presence.
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Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea@mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
