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

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

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On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:43 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks () 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