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Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
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On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT, Aaron Wendel said:
>> That's a good question. Maybe they can't qualify under Arin rules. Another
>
>> question will be: how is Arin going to handle it?
>>
>> 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.......
>
> The *important* question is - do they *remain* legacy addresses under the
> legacy address rules after the Microsoft acquisition, and thus re-sellable at a
> later date? If so, we may have seen the first case of IP address speculation,
> and the start of the bubble. I don't want to see how this bubble bursts..
>
In order for the transfer to be recognized by ARIN, they would not be able to remain legacy addresses. However, nothing in ARIN policy precludes resale of transferred addresses at a later date. What it does preclude, however, is acquiring the addresses without justified need.
Owen
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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: Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu)