Appreciate the correction as IANA back then was simply Jon Postel.
-Ahmed
From: Owen DeLong
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:27 PM
To: Ahmed Abu-Abed
Cc: Lu Heng ; [email protected]
Subject: [Bulk] Re: [menog] Microsoft offered $7.5M for Nortel's IPv4
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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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