+1, with the added note that speculation and hoarding will be in play
in a limited-resources market.
"In other business news, a man traded a kidney for an IPv4 C Class
network today...."
But wait - isn't this a GOOD thing? Who's going to hold out on IPv6
deployment if those addresses are FREE and IPv4 addresses cost more than
an Apple share?
On 2014-06-04 8:28 AM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:
On 6/4/2014 7:11 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Or, you could recognize that the intent of the policy and the reason
for that policy is to make those addresses available to other
entities with a more immediate need and behave in the spirit of the
community.
We can't make the letter of the law force all organizations to be
good actors. It's just not practical. The best we can do is provide
policy that expresses the general intent of the community and hope
that the majority of people and organizations are good actors.
Once addresses are no longer available from ARIN, all organizations in
need of addresses will be spending real money to acquire them. They
will spend that money as directed by their leadership and their
shareholders to ensure their own perceived need is met, not what ARIN
thinks they need this week. In fact, for public companies to do
otherwise would be irresponsible to their shareholders and actionable
by said shareholders.
If they are unable to register the addresses, they will still lock
them up in contracts that are none of ARIN's business (and entirely
invisible to ARIN), not "make those addresses available to other
entities with a more immediate need". That's just not going to happen,
for the same reason GM doesn't say "Well, tires are going to be in
short supply for the next couple of quarters. We really should stop
ordering them so other more charitable car makers can get their share."
Matthew Kaufman
ps. I'd also note that "policy that expresses the general intent of
the community" may in fact *be* policy that lets post-runout transfers
be performed without a needs test, as "the community" consists of a
lot more than "Owen".
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