On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Leigh Porter
<leigh.por...@ukbroadband.com> wrote:
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Curran [mailto:jcur...@arin.net]
>> Joly -
>>
>>   Requests are processed according the transfer policies
>>   <https://www.arin.net/policy/nrpm.html#eight>.  If a
>>   request doesn't meet the transfer policy (e.g. the sale
>>   is not to an actual entity that has an operational need
>>   for address space or it is more space than needed for the
>>   next twelve months), then it will be denied.
>
>
> Presumably organisations will check this and fake the appropriate paperwork 
> and come up with some plausible excuse for requiring the space within the 
> next 12 months BEFORE they part with their cash.
>
> It would be most amusing for somebody to buy space, hand over the money and 
> then have ARIN deny the transfer.
>
> So I do wonder, how is this policy is being enforced and will ARIN be 
> investigating this current news item?
>

ARIN, on many occasions, has stated that they have no authority over
legacy address space. They made this declaration in the Kamens/sex.com
case. I haven't heard that anything has changed since then.

Nortel/MSN was the first, big, public transaction. There have been
others prior to Nortel. There will be more after Borders.

Circuit City:

http://www.slideshare.net/Streambank/offering-memo-ip-addresses-92111final

Best.

-M<

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