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Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million
From: "Aaron Wendel"<aaron () wholesaleinternet net>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 -0500
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 Sent via DROID on Verizon Wireless -----Original message----- From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell () ufp org> To: nanog () nanog org Sent: Thu, Mar 24, 2011 14:08:21 GMT+00:00Subject: 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. -- Leo Bicknell - bicknell () ufp org - CCIE 3440 PGP keys at http://www.ufp.org/~bicknell/
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- Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Eugen Leitl (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Jay Nakamura (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Tom Hill (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Owen DeLong (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Tony Finch (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Bret Clark (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Garrett Skjelstad (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Suresh Ramasubramanian (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Leo Bicknell (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Aaron Wendel (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Valdis . Kletnieks (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Owen DeLong (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Steven Bellovin (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million mikea (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million mikea (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Tom Hill (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Owen DeLong (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Jay Nakamura (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Tore Anderson (Mar 24)
- RE: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Jim Gonzalez (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Bill Woodcock (Mar 24)
- Re: Nortel, in bankruptcy, sells IPv4 address block for $7.5 million Tore Anderson (Mar 24)