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

> 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.

try to minimize barrier to entry.  i am sure there are nice terms in law
for intentionally doing the opposite.

randy