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<DIV>John,</DIV>
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<DIV>Care to answer this direct question vis a vis how ARIN policy was applied
to the Nortel deal:</DIV>
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<DIV>Did Nortel ever return the addresses to ARIN to be transferred specifically
to Microsoft?</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Mike</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jcurran@arin.net
href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net">John Curran</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Friday, June 22, 2012 1:23 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=mike@nationwideinc.com
href="mailto:mike@nationwideinc.com">Mike Burns</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=arin-ppml@arin.net
href="mailto:arin-ppml@arin.net">arin-ppml@arin.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-174 Policies Apply to All
Resourcesin theRegistry</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>On Jun 22, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Mike Burns wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: calibri; FONT-SIZE: 16px"
class=Apple-style-span>... Microsoft paid $7.5 million for addresses which
ARIN says they could have got from ARIN for free, because they passed the
justification test.</SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>
<DIV>Mike - </DIV>
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<DIV> If requested resources from the free pool every 90 days,
and if the</DIV>
<DIV> pool had held out, then they may have achieved the same
goal.</DIV>
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<DIV> Many parties seem attracted to the certainty from having
a large </DIV>
<DIV> block of number resources to meet their future business
needs;</DIV>
<DIV> in addition to Microsoft, the following additional
transfers have</DIV>
<DIV> been transferred from bankruptcy estates:</DIV>
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<DIV> Borders Group, Inc., et al., (S.D.NY)
12/20/2011 1 /16</DIV>
<DIV> Teknowledge Corporation (N.D.CA)
1/24/2012 1/16<BR> Northern Telecom Canada,
Ltd. (Nortel II – Canada) 2/24/2012 2/16’s</DIV>
<DIV> Bell-Northern Research (Nortel II –
Canada) 2/29/2012 1/14 2/29/2012 1/14 4/10/2012 2/16’s</DIV>
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<DIV> You'd have to ask the recipients why the value receiving
number </DIV>
<DIV> resources through transfer; ARIN simply processes the
requests</DIV>
<DIV> per policy.</DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks!</DIV>
<DIV>/John</DIV>
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<DIV>John Curran</DIV>
<DIV>President and CEO</DIV>
<DIV>ARIN</DIV>
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