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

On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 13:57 -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> Tom,
> 
> On Jun 13, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Tom Vest wrote:
> > Perhaps Jay is like me, trying to highlight some possible  
> > consequences that the "governed" might wish to consider before  
> > consenting to go down this particular one-way street.
> 
> The point is, we've already gone down the one-way street.  The  
> question is whether or not we allow the RIRs to help drive or get run  
> over.
> 

The process of governing virtually free handouts from a resource pool
and the regulation of trade in resources controlled by others are
incompatible activities. 2007-08, unless it is backed by regulatory
rules and means to enforce those, goes a long way towards reducing the
NCC to nothing more than a rdns+whois-operator wrt IPv4. RIR's policies
have so far been successful because good behaviour has been rewarded
with ample supply of address-resources. Pointing fingers will not make a
difference once we're out of carrots.

I belive 2007-08 on its own is pointless. If there is a market there
will also be someone trying to regulate it. If the RIRs want their
policies to remain relevant they will have to play the game. For
_example_:

 - Restrict buyers
    - Need based
    - No hoarding (first use what you have)

 - Require registered LIRs to filter disputed prefixes

It will cost a lot of blood, sweat, tears and won't come cheap. The NCC
may also end up having more lawyers than hostmasters, but regulation
_is_ a completely different ballgame. 

OTOH, if we drop the ball, who do we expect to pick it up?

//per