[138960] 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 13:09:23 2011
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:08:42 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
In-Reply-To: <755995FD-1964-45F6-AC4C-04CF872B4571@corp.arin.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
> Thank you Randy. Give Canute a community-developed set of marching
> orders, and make the ocean a little more pliable and you might have
> something there.
at some point, the arin policy wonk weenies will face reality. or not.
it really makes little difference.
i don't particularly like the reality either, but i find it easier and
more productive to align my actions and how i spend my time. not a lot
of high paying jobs pushing water uphill.
randy
