On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Astrodog wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:02, George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com> wrote: ....
Will IANA accept netblock transfers as an exchange medium for datacenter goodies vending machine payments? ... ;-)
Joking while busy discouraged. s/IANA/ARIN/d'oh
I suspect ARIN would follow its policy to recognize any transfer and update its records as long as the needs assessment was successfully completed, but any compensation between the seller and buyer of the resource is not part of the ARIN process.
(This is a (bad?) joke reference to a currently ongoing discussion on the ARIN PPML list).
Hah. So, this should work, provided both entities are on the STSL then.
"Sure..." ;-) That means you'd want about $2K worth of gear because of the existing /24 minimum, in addition to vending machine able to explain why it needs the address space. Have fun, /John p.s. A /16 might be about right for a pack of 100G SMF CFP modules...