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

Michael and all,

  I concur with Michael here...

michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:

> > 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

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