Hi Bill, > ARIN's policies are not precisely identical to RIPE's, but both are governed > by RFC2050, which states that all IP addresses must be allocated based > upon need. That is, the recipient of the addresses must be able to > demonstrate that they need them, and will be able to use them efficiently.
> While it would be allowable under policy for Nortel (or in this case, the > bankruptcy court that's representing their creditors) to transfer the address > space to another entity, rather than simply returning it to ARIN, that other > entity would have to have already justified to ARIN their need for the > address space. Why would Microsoft pay 7 milj US$ if they could justify to ARIN the need for the address space that they could get for free ? I think that is exactly the problem. I doubt that they are above the 80% line of their current allocation and can justify that they need for that many IP's within the next 6 months. And if they could.. could you explain me why they would pay that kind of money for it, if they could get it for 'free' from ARIN ? ARIN would still have a /13 (and some ) if they have gave a valid justification. Regards, Erik Bais _______________________________________________ Menog mailing list [email protected] http://lists.menog.net/mailman/listinfo/menog
