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<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
Abu-Abed</A> </DIV>
<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">menog@menog.net</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">ahmed@tamkien.com</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
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<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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