[147120] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher J. Pilkington)
Fri Dec 2 12:19:43 2011
In-Reply-To: <20111202040423.GL1397@manor.msen.com>
From: "Christopher J. Pilkington" <cjp@0x1.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 12:18:25 -0500
To: "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 1, 2011, at 23:04, "Michael R. Wayne" <wayne@staff.msen.com> wrote:
> After negotiating with multiple prospective buyers, Cerner Corp.
> agreed to buy the Internet addresses for $12 each. Other bids were
> as low as $1.50 each, according to a bankruptcy court filing.
Clearly the addresses with the last octet of 00 and ff should be
discounted, since no one wants to be zero, and ff just seems to get
everyone's attention.
-cjp