[147124] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Fri Dec 2 14:25:22 2011
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 14:23:54 -0500 (EST)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
In-Reply-To: <20111202141151.GA20138@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:04:23PM -0500, Michael R. Wayne 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.
>
> Someone should tell Cerner Corp you can still get them for free,
> and thus they overpaid by oh, $12 an address!
I'm waiting for someone to come back and balk at $12/address, and try to
reduce the number of addresses they buy, forgetting that pesky powers-of-two
business: "In the interest of containing the cost of the deal, XYZ Corp has
agreed to buy 27,000 addresses instead of the original 65,536."
That will be a definite facepalm moment.
jms
