[arin-ppml] An article of interest to the community....

[Scott Leibrand]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> On 8/30/11 10:16 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>>
>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:01 PM, "Mike Burns" <mike at nationwideinc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm an ARIN facilitator.
>>>> Can I run an auction today on eBay for address space?


>> While auctioning your space is not an automatic free pass on section 12, I know that ARIN is
>> being extremely careful not to conduct arbitrary section 12 audits against people who merely
>> seek to auction their space.


> If one is auctioning IPv4 address space, wouldn't it be safe to say it's
> unused? Wouldn't (non-legacy) unused space normally just be returned to
> ARIN?
>
> ~Seth

You could auction off a block for delivery in 3 months, and then if
your reserve is met, use the auction proceeds to renumber out of it.

-Scott