<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi, John.<div><br><div><div>On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:16 PM, John Curran wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">As some folks have been tracking this matter, I'm pleased to be able to </font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="monospace">announce that </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Microsoft has received approval of the US Bankruptcy Court </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">in Delaware </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">that </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">certain Internet Protocol (IP)
number resources being </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">transferred </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Microsoft </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">from
the Nortel bankruptcy will be placed under </span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">registration </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">services agreement between ARIN
and Microsoft. </span></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></div>Sorry to nit-pick, but I'd like to offer a point of clarification: The bankruptcy court's order authorizes Nortel to sell their rights to the legacy IPv4 numbers, per the sale agreement that was filed with the court. Technically, the order is not directed at Microsoft or ARIN, and does not approve the LRSA.</div><div><br></div><div>I wrote a blog on this topic, at <a href="http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110427_court_approves_nortels_sale_of_ipv4_addresses_to_microsoft/">http://www.circleid.com/posts/20110427_court_approves_nortels_sale_of_ipv4_addresses_to_microsoft/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>-Benson</div><div><br></div></body></html>