Re:Next Generation MITnet
by ghaff on Thursday April 20, 2017 @12:51PM
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Why not sell them?
- It's not clear to me who benefits from just giving IP addresses back to ARIN. I guess it means everyone (presumably mostly telcos and cloud providers) get IP addresses a little bit cheaper.
- I'm not sure why MIT is under some special obligation to give back their old, pre-ARIN addresses that they got in the early days of the Internet relative to the variety of corporations who still own the blocks from the same regime including Halliburton for example.
- It's not clear to me who benefits from just giving IP addresses back to ARIN. I guess it means everyone (presumably mostly telcos and cloud providers) get IP addresses a little bit cheaper.
- I'm not sure why MIT is under some special obligation to give back their old, pre-ARIN addresses that they got in the early days of the Internet relative to the variety of corporations who still own the blocks from the same regime including Halliburton for example.