[138971] 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 15:34:21 2011
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 13:28:36 -0600
To: "Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu" <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT, Aaron Wendel said:
>> That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Anot=
her=20
>=20
>> 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 reve=
rt =20
>> to the Arin pool. I understand that these were legacy addresses but.....=
..
>=20
> The *important* question is - do they *remain* legacy addresses under the
> legacy address rules after the Microsoft acquisition, and thus re-sellable=
at a
> later date? If so, we may have seen the first case of IP address speculat=
ion,
> and the start of the bubble. I don't want to see how this bubble bursts..=
>=20
In order for the transfer to be recognized by ARIN, they would not be able t=
o remain legacy addresses. However, nothing in ARIN policy precludes resale o=
f transferred addresses at a later date. What it does preclude, however, is a=
cquiring the addresses without justified need.
Owen
