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

On Sat, 21 Feb 2015, Saeed Khademi wrote:

> Now if some organizations are selling their IP address spaces, it means 
> they don't need them. Even worse, they may have been lying in the first 
> place.

Or they just decide that putting their existing customers behind CGN and 
selling their IPv4 addresses is a better business decision than keeping 
their customers on globally unique IPv4 address per customer.

The only reason they would be doing this work (and possible customer 
experience degradation) is that the IPv4 address has value. So if IPv4 
address has no value (as per your implication above), then this work will 
never get done.

So your proposal will never work in real life unless you start to change 
the definion of "justification", for instance to say that we no longer 
consider giving IPv4 GUA to residential consumers or mobile handsets 
justifiable, and that all that space must be handed back. I don't see how 
you will ever get consensus for that policy change though.

-- 
Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se