[address-policy-wg] 2013-03 New Draft Document and Impact Analysis Published (No Need - Post-Depletion Reality Adjustment and Clean up)

* Nick Hilliard

> On 01/08/2013 07:38, Tore Anderson wrote:
>> «Fair use: Public IPv4 address space must be fairly distributed to the
>> End Users operating networks.»
> 
> can you define "fair"?

Well *that* is the million dollar question, isn't it. In a state of
scarcity, what is "fair"?

This is a question that neither I, Malcom, 2013-03, nor ripe-592,
presume to have an answer for.

However, I understood the crux of Malcom's objection to be that if we
remove this stated objective of "fairness", then we lose our principles
in the process, and it becomes hard to add it back later (presumably
along with a precise definition of "fair").

Therefore I was hoping that retaining this sentence (which is there in
today's policy as well) would help move the discussion forward in the
direction of consensus.

Tore