[147125] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Fri Dec 2 14:28:34 2011
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>, Leo Bicknell
<bicknell@ufp.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:29:43 +0000
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1112021414001.3791@whammy.cluebyfour.org>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:streiner@cluebyfour.org]
> Sent: 02 December 2011 19:26
> To: Leo Bicknell
> Cc: NANOG
> Subject: Re: IP addresses are now assets
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> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
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> > 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!
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> 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."
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> That will be a definite facepalm moment.
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> jms
So about a /18 a /19 a /21 and a /23 then ;-)
--
Leigh
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