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On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:24 AM, "Ahmed Abu-Abed" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ARIN rules could be difficult to impose on pre-IANA blocks; Nortel had IP
> addresses before IANA and ARIN came into existence, so this may go to court
> if ARIN wants to block it. But Microsoft could have a right to ask for these
> addresses as they are into cloud services which needs a lot of IPs, so ARIN
> may agree. And IANA records shows Bell Northern Research, later part of
> Nortel, was assigned its own /8 block in January 1991.
No, they may predate ICANN and ARIN, but they do not predate IANA as IANA
predates IP addresses.
>
Owen
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