[arin-ppml] DRAFT POLICY ARIN-2011-1: GLOBALLY COORDINATED TRANSFER POLICY (Legacy space)

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 4/12/2011 6:22 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>
> As a practical matter, can a legacy registrant sell their IP's to a
> speculator? Yes. Yes, they can. The speculator just has to be a little
> crafty about it.

And not even *this* crafty... you just move your IP address holdings 
into a subsidiary and then the speculator buys a controlling interest in 
the subsidiary and waits. You can even structure it so that if/when the 
addresses finally do go to an end-user via transfer all the parties in 
the path get appropriate bonuses out of their equity shares. Might even 
be tax-advantageous to do it this way in some jurisdictions.

Matthew Kaufman