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Does ARIN have the right to approve all IPv4 address sales?
Posted by: Jordi on Thursday, May 12, 2011 - 12:18 PM
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A U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware recently approved Nortel's sale of 666,624 IPv4 addresses to Microsoft for $7.5 million. Despite this precedent, a debate is raging in Internet policy circles about how sales of IPv4 addresses -- particularly the largest blocks of IPv4 address space issued before the Internet became popular -- will proceed in the future.
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