[150226] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Colo Vending Machine
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sun Feb 19 12:22:00 2012
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From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
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Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:21:02 -0500
To: Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Astrodog wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:02, George Herbert =
<george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ....
>>>> Will IANA accept netblock transfers as an exchange medium for
>>>> datacenter goodies vending machine payments? ... ;-)
>>>=20
>>> Joking while busy discouraged. s/IANA/ARIN/d'oh
>>=20
>> I suspect ARIN would follow its policy to recognize
>> any transfer and update its records as long as the
>> needs assessment was successfully completed,
>> but any compensation between the seller and
>> buyer of the resource is not part of the ARIN process.
>>=20
>> (This is a (bad?) joke reference to a currently
>> ongoing discussion on the ARIN PPML list).
>=20
> Hah. So, this should work, provided both entities are on the STSL =
then.
"Sure..." ;-)
That means you'd want about $2K worth of gear because of the existing =
/24=20
minimum, in addition to vending machine able to explain why it needs the=20=
address space. =20
Have fun,
/John
p.s. A /16 might be about right for a pack of 100G SMF CFP modules...