[147155] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Dec 2 19:46:27 2011
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:44:39 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <EB76C778-6751-404A-A9B6-3ECA8251BF18@arin.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Curran" <jcurran@arin.net>
> 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
> addresses in accordance with policy, and we are now seeing
> most parties come to us in advance either to prequalify or
> make the sale conditional on approval.
No, Valdis, the ARIN position is "if we wanted Curran to have a sense of humor,
we'd have issued him one".
:-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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