[138969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Mar 24 15:27:41 2011
In-Reply-To: <4D8B57DB.7080602@redpill-linpro.com>
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:26:54 -0600
To: Tore Anderson <tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:40 AM, Tore Anderson <tore.anderson@redpill-linpro.com=
> wrote:
> * Leo Bicknell
>=20
>> I think the more interesting question is why would Microsoft pay
>> $7.5 million for something they can, at least for the moment, get
>> for free.
>=20
> A very interesting question indeed!
>=20
> However, they can only get them for free from ARIN if they can document
> an immediate demand. Perhaps they don't have an immediate demand, and
> are simply stockpiling addresses for later use post ARIN depletion? Or
> perhaps they hope to make a profit then by selling them to someone else.
>=20
> Either way, it sure seems they're speculating that the market price of
> an IPv4 address is going to rise to more than US$11.25.
>=20
> --=20
> Tore Anderson
> Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com
> Tel: +47 21 54 41 27
If they are stockpiling and can't justify need, they are doing so outside of=
ARIN policy and I will be surprised if that doesn't get challenged by ARIN.=
Owen
