[arin-ppml] ARIN / Microsoft press release regarding IP address Transfers

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

Unfortunately, that doesn't help because once Microsoft obtained
the rights to the addresses, it could have signed anything it
wanted with ARIN.

ARIN's only leverage in these deals is denying WHOIS recognition
to the new address holders, and assigning the addresses to
someone else.  Then that other party can advertise the addresses
in the DFZ and cause enormous problems for the "buyer".  And I
will say right now, point blank, that unless ARIN does that with
someone, soon, then pretty soon nobody is going to believe that
they will, then that threat to keep people in line will not
be any good anymore.

Ted

On 4/15/2011 6:03 PM, Milton L Mueller wrote:
> A very interesting development. I wrote about it here:
> http://blog.internetgovernance.org/blog/_archives/2011/4/15/4796200.html
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> Subject: [arin-ppml] ARIN / Microsoft press release regarding IP address
>> Transfers
>>
>> https://www.arin.net/about_us/media/releases/20110415.html
>>
>> FYI,
>> /John
>>
>> John Curran
>> President and CEO
>> ARIN
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