[139021] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Fri Mar 25 07:45:35 2011
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 07:44:20 -0400
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Does anyone really believe MS is this na=EFve? I have no doubt at all =
that some small bit of Nortel will be transferred to MS if that's what's =
required for the IPs in question to be moved in accordance with normal =
standards, practice, and policy.
Jamie
-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Kaufman [mailto:matthew@matthew.at]=20
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 11:07 PM
To: Jimmy Hess
Cc: John Curran; NANOG list
Subject: Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 =
million
On 3/24/2011 7:59 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote:
>
> Because that's what IP addresses are. Totally worthless unless =
community
> participants voluntarily route traffic for those IPs to the assignee.
Note that community participants can do this with or without ARIN having =
updated some entries in a database.
Would de-peer with Microsoft (or turn down a transit contract from them) =
just because they wanted to announce some Nortel address space?
Would ARIN really erase the Nortel entry and move these addresses to the =
free pool if Microsoft doesn't play along with one of the transfer =
policies?
Would you announce addresses someone had just obtained from ARIN that=20
were already being announced by Microsoft?
Matthew Kaufman
