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

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 11:05:53AM +0100, Sander Steffann wrote:
>> Limiting entry to 1024 addresses is anti-competitive.
>>
>And intentionally running out and limiting entry to 0 addresses is ... ?

Well, you can't sue a shop for having run out of milk to sell...

I do see the point of running out quickly - stretching the ipv4
supply out as long as possible does damn us to this speculation
nonsense for decades to come. 
The question is whether running out quickly will force ipv6 to
happen and thus make ipv4 essentially useless as a speculation
object. 
The way I see it, there are conflicting goals here - protect the
investment of the big ipv4 players or cause enough pain to force
the switch to ipv6 in my lifetime. If it should be the job of the
RIRs to promote either goal (and I'm not sure it is) the latter
one would be the better outcome for the Internet in the long
term.

As for the proposal, I'm "neutral tending towards opposition"
pending further argument.

rgds,
Sascha Luck