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Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:34:13AM -0400, Steven Bellovin wrote:
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> On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:
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> > That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another question will be: how is Arin going to handle it?
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> > Im pretty sure that the RSA says that in the event of bankruptcy ips revert to the Arin pool. I understand that these were legacy addresses but.......
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> I wonder if the bankruptcy court agrees with that. Does it have the power
> to order ARIN to accept this? "Send lawyers, guns, and money"...
Good question. Isn't ARIN a US corporation? <lynx> Yep; incorporated in
Virginia. At the very least, it might be ... interesting for a Canadian
court to try to enforce an order on a US corporation with no Canadian
presence.
--
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin
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- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
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- From: zeusdadog at gmail.com (Jay Nakamura)
- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
- From: dot at dotat.at (Tony Finch)
- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
- From: bclark at spectraaccess.com (Bret Clark)
- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
- From: bicknell at ufp.org (Leo Bicknell)
- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
- From: aaron at wholesaleinternet.net (Aaron Wendel)
- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
- From: smb at cs.columbia.edu (Steven Bellovin)