ARIN Capitalization

One of the ways for ARIN to be capitalized would
be for the "members" to bring their IP address blocks
to ARIN for "safe keeping".

Not to pick on John Curran and BBN Planet, but
they could bring the following address blocks to
help "capitalize ARIN" or place them in "trust" with
ARIN.

MA	4.0.0.0	BBN Planet (NET-SATNET)
MA	8.0.0.0	Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (NET-BBN-NET-TEMP)
MA	46.0.0.0	Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. (NET-BBNNET)

Each block above has 16,777,216. This is a total of 50,331,648.

If BBN Planet had to purchase those addresses for $1 per address
that would be $50,331,648.00. Instead, it might make more sense
to place them in trust, with ARIN. Apparently ARIN has been able
to work through the issues of who owns IP addresses.

--
Jim Fleming
Unir Corporation

e-mail:
JimFleming at unety.net
JimFleming at unety.s0.g0 (EDNS/IPv8)