<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:17 PM, John Curran wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">
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<div>On Apr 27, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:</div>
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<div>On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:16 PM, John Curran wrote:</div>
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<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>
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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>
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<div>I did not state that order was directed at ARIN, nor that the court approved the </div><div>
<div>LRSA, so I'm unsure what point you feel you are clarifying. </div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">I was attempting to clarify any misunderstanding that might result from the phrase "Microsoft has received approval" in your statement. I think this has now been made clear.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">Thanks,</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: transparent;">-Benson</span></div></div><br></body></html>