[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Draft Document Published (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

> as the comment period for the v3 of 2007-08 is nearing its 
> end (one week left), please send your comments about it to the list.

2007-08 <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-08.html>
is a dishonest policy. It enables buying and selling of IP address
blocks without saying anything about how this relates to the statement
in RIPE-421 (The IPv6 policy) which says:

   It is contrary to the goals of this document
   and is not in the interests of the Internet 
   community as a whole for address space to be
   considered freehold property. 

RIPE policy and practice already allows LIRs to return surplus
addresses to RIPE. If an LIR finds itself in a position to have
surplus IPv4 addresses (very unlikely) then why do we need to
change the existing practice?

I can see only one motivation for this change, and that is to allow
LIRs to sell address space, and I believe that this is contrary
to the interests of the entire IP networking community.

2007-08 should be rejected because no consensus has been formed and
we have seen very little discussion of the points outlined by Sander
Steffann
in his email of June 13th.
<http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2008/msg0
0382.html>

--Michael Dillon