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

[Steven Bellovin <smb () cs columbia edu>]

On Mar 24, 2011, at 10:27 58AM, Aaron Wendel wrote:

> 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.......

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"...

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb