On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 11:21 AM, John Curran <jcur...@istaff.org> wrote: > On Feb 18, 2012, at 1:55 PM, Astrodog wrote: >> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Gary Buhrmaster >> <gary.buhrmas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 01:02, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> .... >>>>> Will IANA accept netblock transfers as an exchange medium for >>>>> datacenter goodies vending machine payments? ... ;-) >>>> >>>> Joking while busy discouraged. s/IANA/ARIN/d'oh >>> >>> I suspect ARIN would follow its policy to recognize >>> any transfer and update its records as long as the >>> needs assessment was successfully completed, >>> but any compensation between the seller and >>> buyer of the resource is not part of the ARIN process. >>> >>> (This is a (bad?) joke reference to a currently >>> ongoing discussion on the ARIN PPML list). >> >> Hah. So, this should work, provided both entities are on the STSL then. > > "Sure..." ;-) > > That means you'd want about $2K worth of gear because of the existing /24 > minimum, in addition to vending machine able to explain why it needs the > address space. > > Have fun, > /John > > p.s. A /16 might be about right for a pack of 100G SMF CFP modules... >
This gives me an idea. The vending machine could also sell hosting. Sometimes, the box just won't come back to life and you need somewhere to stuff the data. *grin* (Actually, based on a few of my DC visits, there are times where I'd have gladly shelled out $2k for a small baggie of screws.) --- Harrison
