<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>IANA back then was Jon Postel and another individual whose name escapes me at the moment (Grace something? IIRC) under contract to DARPA and later NSF followed by USDOC. Since its inception, the IANA has always been a contract agency of the united States government, a situation which remains today. ICANN operates the IANA under contract to USDOC.</div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:18 AM, "Ahmed Abu-Abed" <<a href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com">ahmed@tamkien.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><font face="Calibri">Appreciate the correction as IANA back then
was simply Jon Postel. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">-Ahmed</font></div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a title="owend@he.net" href="mailto:owend@he.net">Owen DeLong</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, March 29, 2011 6:27 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="ahmed@tamkien.com" href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com">Ahmed
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<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="h.lu@anytimechinese.com" href="mailto:h.lu@anytimechinese.com">Lu Heng</a> ; <a title="menog@menog.net" href="mailto:menog@menog.net"><a href="mailto:menog@menog.net">menog@menog.net</a></a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [Bulk] Re: [menog] Microsoft offered $7.5M for Nortel's
IPv4</div></div></div>
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<div><br>On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:24 AM, "Ahmed Abu-Abed" <<a href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com"><a href="mailto:ahmed@tamkien.com">ahmed@tamkien.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div>
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<div><font face="Calibri">ARIN rules could be difficult to impose on
pre-IANA blocks; Nortel had IP addresses before IANA and ARIN came into
existence, so this may go to court if ARIN wants to block it. But Microsoft
could have a right to ask for these addresses as they are into cloud
services which needs a lot of IPs, so ARIN may agree. And </font><font face="Calibri">IANA records shows Bell Northern Research, later part of
Nortel, was assigned its own /8 block in January
1991.</font></div></div></blockquote>
<div><br></div>No, they may predate ICANN and ARIN, but they do not predate IANA
as IANA predates IP addresses.
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