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...
