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

* David Farmer

> I believe the primary definition of fairness the RIR communities have
> been using is, "only those that have *verified operational need* get
> Internet number resources".

Do you have a link or reference? (Tried Google, no hits.)

> Furthermore, I believe that now that everyone's operational need can no
> longer be meet, a state of scarcity, that fairness is doubly important.
> How does verified operational need provide fairness in a state of
> scarcity?  If someone without verified operational need were to receive
> Internet number resources, presumably through a transfer, and you have
> verifiable operational need that can no longer be meet; it would add
> insult to injury that someone without that verifiable operational need
> receives Internet number resources when you can't.  Therefore, verifying
> operational need for transfers, still provides some minimal amount of
> fairness to those that are not going to receive Internet number resources.

Let me get this straight, are you saying here that our current goal of
fairness in our current state of scarcity is to protect the *feelings*
of the LIRs who return home from the second-hand market empty-handed?
(Currently 96-97% of them.)

In a similar vein, and somewhat tongue in cheek: If you're trying to buy
an apartment, but get outbid by someone, do you get upset unless you can
see some proof that guy did buy it plans on moving in there? Or do you
assume that's probably the case and move on?

Tore