<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Apparently the AMPR folks (net 44) have decided to sell a quarter of the IPv4 address space that has been entrusted to their care to Amazon in order to endow a fund for unspecified purposes. I’ve heard the number $50mm bandied about. Based on my personal knowledge of the market, that number is in the right ballpark (say, within 20%).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">AMPR’s side of the story is here: <a href="https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/" class="">https://www.ampr.org/amprnet/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Outrage over this deal here: <a href="https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102103.html" class="">https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2019-July/102103.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are parallels being drawn to if the League decided that they could make a bunch of money by claiming authority (on the basis that they run the band plan) to auction off, say, 23cm because they could get a billion or so for 60 MHz of prime real estate. They don’t do that though; in fact they have the Spectrum Defense Fund to fight encroachment.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">My personal opinion is that this address space was originally granted for the public use of the amateur community and at best this decision represents conversion. I don’t think ARIN did anything wrong here; I am quite confident that their processes were followed to a T.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, who are the right folks to flag this to at the ARRL? We need to start the fraud complaints heading in to ARIN.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-r</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>