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

Randy

I'd like to continue this thread because I think it goes to the heart of 
the issues around exhaustion, but it is not directly relevant to this 
policy proposal, so bearing that in mind ...

> >> Rival databases, based around IPv4 trading exchanges, will spring up.
> > Why do you believe this won't happen due the vacuum created by the 
lack
> > of RIR involvement?
> 
> and why would a little competition at serving us, the users of all this
> stuff, necessarily be a bad thing?

Because I believe we should continue with open, consensus-driven, policy 
based allocation mechanism, not a competitive market, for all the reasons 
previously given.

> how much is an x.509/3779 cert and an in-addr.arpa entry worth, anyway?

I think a price of 100m euros for a /8 is not unreasonable.  If we were to 
charge pre-RIR /8s that in order for them to get cert to join global 
secure routing then the reclaim/reuse solution might start be very 
effective.

Jay