From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi.com@nanog.org Fri Dec 2 13:29:31 2011 From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com> To: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> Subject: RE: IP addresses are now assets Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 19:29:43 +0000 Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
-----Original Message----- From: Justin M. Streiner [mailto:streiner@cluebyfour.org] Sent: 02 December 2011 19:26 To: Leo Bicknell Cc: NANOG Subject: Re: IP addresses are now assets
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011, Leo Bicknell wrote:
In a message written on Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 11:04:23PM -0500, Michael R. Wayne wrote:
After negotiating with multiple prospective buyers, Cerner Corp. agreed to buy the Internet addresses for $12 each. Other bids were as low as $1.50 each, according to a bankruptcy court filing.
Someone should tell Cerner Corp you can still get them for free, and thus they overpaid by oh, $12 an address!
I'm waiting for someone to come back and balk at $12/address, and try to reduce the number of addresses they buy, forgetting that pesky powers- of-two business: "In the interest of containing the cost of the deal, XYZ Corp has agreed to buy 27,000 addresses instead of the original 65,536."
That will be a definite facepalm moment.
jms
So about a /18 a /19 a /21 and a /23 then ;-)
Methinks it ought to be restricted to some combination of a /17, a /19, a /23, a /29, and a /31. It's all 'prime' number-space, after all. <groan.