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

On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 10:37 +0000, Sascha Luck [ml] wrote:
> 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.

This proposal serves the purpose of shutting off access to 'cheap' IPv4
for new businesses, definitely forcing them to turn to the IPv4
resellers who in turn can protect their prices. 
  It also obviously extends the life of the /8 for the very limited and
specific Internet business use cases approved by the community. 
For all other use cases, assistance to entry by the RIPE NCC is banned.

The proposal *increases* the relevance of the IPv4 resellers.
The proposal *diminishes* the relevance of the RIPE NCC as a partner for
entry to the Internet for any Internet service business.

"Shooting yourself in the foot", I believe is the term, for what many in
the community actually would like to see (inevitable eventual outcome is
inevitable, though).

/M
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