[147098] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Fri Dec 2 07:43:17 2011
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: "<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>"
<Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:42:03 +0000
In-Reply-To: <44762.1322812111@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 2, 2011, at 2:48 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
> Would it be correct to summarize the ARIN position as "It's murkier than =
Cerner
> makes it out to be, and some lawyers are gonna get stinking filthy rich
> litigating this one"?
It's pretty simple: you can write a contract to transfer IP=20
addresses in accordance with policy, and we are now seeing=20
most parties come to us in advance either to prequalify or=20
make the sale conditional on approval.
FYI,
/John
John Curran
President and CEO
ARIN
