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+00:00 Subject: 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/