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On Mar 24, 2011, at 8:43 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 09:27:58 CDT, Aaron Wendel said: >> 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....... > > The *important* question is - do they *remain* legacy addresses under the > legacy address rules after the Microsoft acquisition, and thus re-sellable at > a > later date? If so, we may have seen the first case of IP address speculation, > and the start of the bubble. I don't want to see how this bubble bursts.. > In order for the transfer to be recognized by ARIN, they would not be able to remain legacy addresses. However, nothing in ARIN policy precludes resale of transferred addresses at a later date. What it does preclude, however, is acquiring the addresses without justified need. Owen
