<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:24 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">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.<div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div><font face="Calibri"></font></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Owen</div></body></html>