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

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:44:11AM +0100, michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
> New entrants typically want to see predictable prices or else
> they simply don't enter. Currently, the price for IPv4 addresses
> is predictable. After a transfer scheme is in place, and speculators
> take up the remaining free pool, the price of IPv4 will be wildly
> unpredictable. That situation will block new entrants.

If I understand this right, you're opposing this proposal because you
are afraid of speculators?

Given that speculators could do this right away (open a startup company,
claim ridiculously large customers, let the company sleep for a few years,
and then sell the company including the address space for a nice markup)
- why do you assume it would become worse with 2007-08?

Can we realistically assume that there will not be any address trading
if 2007-08 is withdrawn?  Or won't it be just the same sort of trading - but
without a RIR that keeps track of who can claim rights to what?


(If, OTOH, you're right and everbody will go to IPv6 right away, then
I don't see why 2007-08 would do *harm*)

Gert Doering
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