[85569] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?=)
Fri Oct 14 07:09:10 2005
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Bj=F8rn_Mork?= <bjorn@mork.no>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>
Cc: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com, nanog@nanog.org
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 13:06:30 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0510130954280.5606@localhost.localdomain> (Brandon
Ross's message of "Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:56:07 -0400 (EDT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com> writes:
> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>
>> I'm sure that there will be a frantic scramble, but I don't
>> expect it to last long enough for an IPv4 black market to
>> form.
>
> There's already a black market in IPv4. I've seen plenty of offers to=20
> "buy" address space through various underhanded schemes. Most take the=20
> form of creating a shell company that the space is registered to and then=
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> the buyer "acquiring" that company.
The most impressive such deal I know about took place already in 1995
when IBM bought a small norwegian company called "Norsk
informasjonsteknologi" (or NIT). Most people didn't see anything
interesting there. But I guess IBM noticed they "owned" 32/8.
Probably don't qualify for the black market though. It was more of a
grey deal.
Bj=F8rn
