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[Paul Brooks]

On 21/01/2013 8:42 AM, Jacob Gardiner wrote:
> I'm curious as to how you can sell something that you don't own?
>
> To be honest, i'm not familiar with the policies around IP allocations, but i'm
> fairly certain that they're just that - an allocation not an ownership.

Maybe you need to brush up on APNIC (and ARIN) policies around transfers of resource
allocations between entities. Its all fairly recent (within the last few years), I've
had to do a bit of reading up over the past few months as well.

http://www.apnic.net/services/become-a-member/manage-your-membership/transfer-resources is
a good place to start.

In short - APNIC allows you to transfer your 'rights to use' something to another
APNIC member.

What compensation or inducement you might ask for in exchange for your agreement to
transfer away the allocation is between you and the recipient.

ARIN actually has a better explanation IMHO:
https://www.arin.net/resources/transfers/transfer_market.html
"ARIN policy now allows organizations that need IPv4 addresses to acquire them from
organizations with unused IPv4 addresses. ARIN still encourages organizations with
surplus IPv4 address space to return that to ARIN for use by the broader community.
However, some organizations may wish to transfer the right to use surplus IPv4 address
space to an organization in need that is willing to compensate for cost associated
with renumbering out of that surplus IPv4 address space. While the financial details
of these transfers are outside ARIN’s purview, both specified transfer parties must
meet certain requirement for the specified transfer to be recognized under current
ARIN policy. ....
"


Paul.