[address-policy-wg] [Ticket#2012102901001081] 2012-05 New Draft and Impact Analysis Documents Published (Transparency in Addre [...]

* LeaderTelecom Ltd.

> 1 IP address transfers for 10-20USD. Just multiple count of IP x 15 USD.

The size of the monetary compensation (if any) is likely to be
confidential between the parties. There's no IPv4 stock exchange where
everyone can can see the buying and selling prices. As there has been
only very few transactions in the RIPE region to date, I don't think you
can so easily conclude that US$15 is the market price everyone will end
up paying.

The proposal only seeks to document a transfer has happened, not any
prices paid (it is doubtful that the NCC is privy to this information in
any case). This is in keeping with the "Registration" goal of the
internet registry system (see ripe-553 section 3.0).

It is in any case already possible to determine that there has been an
IPv4 address transaction between two LIRs by, as Alex Le Heux pointed
out earlier, comparing different versions of the files available on
ftp.ripe.net. It's more cumbersome than the reading neat list requested
by this proposal, but it's certainly something the Russian mafia has
enough technical talent to do, if they want to. (It took me something
like 10 minutes.)

-- 
Tore Anderson
Redpill Linpro AS - http://www.redpill-linpro.com