[147110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Fri Dec 2 10:18:19 2011
In-Reply-To: <D181DDABABE57E4DB72FEE003314786444EAE5@EALPO1.ukbroadband.com>
From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 10:16:55 -0500
To: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Leigh Porter
<leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Curran [mailto:jcurran@arin.net]
>> Joly -
>>
>> =A0 Requests are processed according the transfer policies
>> =A0 <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#eight>. =A0If a
>> =A0 request doesn't meet the transfer policy (e.g. the sale
>> =A0 is not to an actual entity that has an operational need
>> =A0 for address space or it is more space than needed for the
>> =A0 next twelve months), then it will be denied.
>
>
> Presumably organisations will check this and fake the appropriate paperwo=
rk and come up with some plausible excuse for requiring the space within th=
e next 12 months BEFORE they part with their cash.
>
> It would be most amusing for somebody to buy space, hand over the money a=
nd then have ARIN deny the transfer.
>
> So I do wonder, how is this policy is being enforced and will ARIN be inv=
estigating this current news item?
>
ARIN, on many occasions, has stated that they have no authority over
legacy address space. They made this declaration in the Kamens/sex.com
case. I haven't heard that anything has changed since then.
Nortel/MSN was the first, big, public transaction. There have been
others prior to Nortel. There will be more after Borders.
Circuit City:
http://www.slideshare.net/Streambank/offering-memo-ip-addresses-92111final
Best.
-M<
