[address-policy-wg] 2015-01 New Policy Proposal (Alignment of Transfer Requirements for IPv4 Allocations)

Hello Martin,

> I'm generally in favour of any proposal that hastens the run-out of
> the final /8.

The main design goal for the final /8 policy was to make sure that newcomers still had the possibility of participating on the IPv4 internet. It is unfortunately still not possible to run an ISP, hoster etc. with only IPv6. Without the final /8 policy every new company would have to get (borrow, buy, rent, ...) IPv4 addresses from existing companies that already got IPv4 addresses before we ran out of addresses to distribute using our needs-based allocation policies. With the final /8 policy they don't get much but at least they are able to participate on the internet. There is still an imbalance because of the low amount of addresses they get but at least they have *something* to work with.

I do feel that as a community we should take this into account. Although I am sure there are many governments who want to take control over the internet we still are in a position that we can (are allowed to?) self-regulate the distribution of number resources. If we only think about ourselves (the existing participants on the internet) and block new entrants from getting even that tiny fraction of the addresses that most of us got for free in the past then I am afraid that this won't last very long.

Comments from the working group on this are highly appreciated :)

Cheers,
Sander

PS: I don't have a strong opinion on the policy proposal under discussion, sorry for drifting a bit from this thread's subject