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

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:21:12PM +0100, Martin Millnert wrote:
>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.

I can't actually see that. The proposal doesn't move the
goalposts for a new LIR at all, assuming that a new business
would want to hang on to their ipv4 space for at least two years.
It doesn't even prevent them from creating >1 LIR if they need
more than 1024 addresses - as long as each "LIR" hangs on to
theirs for 2 years. The only difficulty is in creating multiple
LIRS and then immediately merging them (and that issue has been
raised)

rgds,
Sascha Luck