[address-policy-wg] Re: Easy to remember IP-address

On 06/04/2010 13:50, Jess Kitchen wrote:

> As far as I can gather there was cold hard cash exchanging hands for
> 8.8.8.8 and 4.4.4.4 - fine for some people and in the ARIN region it's a
> lot more liberal in that sense, but really I should think that RIPE have
> more pressing matters to deal with instead of trying to find a perhaps
> nonexistent clause that prevents you from wasting good peoples time

I have no issue with cold hard cash being exchanged for this, as long as 
the right part of the value chain gets the money and as long as the NCC 
follow policy when giving addresses (where address are taken from the 
appropriate pool based on size) to LIRs. How those LIRs then monetise 
that resource (as long as they also follow policy) is up to them.

If Someone really wants 2.2.2.0/24 (or similar) then they need to wait 
until an LIR is given that address and approach them about buying a 
suitable service from that LIR that allows them access to that resource. 
That LIR *MUST* then follow the appropriate procedures and policies and 
as long as its justified then the allocation can be made.

To be honest I can't see that 2.2.2.0/24 is any more attractive than 
12.34.45.0/24 or 126.23.4.0/24 you are still going to have to give the 
details to a person via email or on a website so making the process of 
finding that information must surely be the most important part of the 
process. Remember that for DNS it really is a one of change of numbers 
during the setup of a PC/Device

How long does it take to find the really memorable OpenDNS dns addresses 
with google?

J

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