Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million

Thu Mar 24 14:27:58 UTC 2011

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.......

Aaron

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-----Original message-----
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell at ufp.org>
To: nanog at nanog.org
Sent: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 14:08:21 GMT+00:00
Subject: Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5  
million

In a message written on Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 09:32:21AM -0400, Bret Clark  
wrote:
> Why would Microsoft need this many IP's? I could see the benefiting 
> service providers much more.

I think the more interesting question is why would Microsoft pay
$7.5 million for something they can, at least for the moment, get
for free.

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