[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 Review Period extended until 9 July 2008 (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

Dear all,

With the review period coming to an end (again), I would like to place
some remarks about the discussion on 2007-08. 

2007-08, for everything that it's claimed to be, is a very simple policy
proposal. It's a proposal that hardly even touches on addresses, it's
actually a registration rather than an address proposal. And in that
respect we all agree. We all want the database to remain a) accurate and
b) usable. Allowing third party transactions to be reflected in the
database achieves the first, setting limits to what and how often
(minimal size, time between mutations) achieves the latter.

The rest of the discussion is on positions, perceived implications and
forward looking statements. We're never going to agree on a single
picture for the future so let's not try to. The one thing that we all do
know and feel is that the future's going to be different from the
current reality.

Based on this, I would like to ask the chairs to move the process
forward for this proposal.

And as for the ideas about giving the RIRs some sort of 'stick' to
enforce usage of address space or worse, routing: consider for yourself
for a while what implications there might be to an RIR actually being
able to force something off the net. Comparable to the position a domain
name registry had for 'wikileaks.org', just to name a recent example. I
can see the queue of lawyers line up already...

Best,

Remco


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