[address-policy-wg] New on RIPE Labs: IPv4 Transfers in the RIPE NCC Service Region

> "...Personally I'm rather sick and tired of hearing people say 'yes,
> let's break IPv4 so we all MUST move to IPv6'. If you think this is
> good policy or even good engineering, please think again. It will make
> us end up with a broken internet that, surprise, we won't be managing
> any more. Breaking IPv4 might lead to increased IPv6 adoption, but not
> on the internet as we know it today. Everybody who wants to connect
> his organisation to the internet is going to need at least some IPv4
> address space for the time being, so why screw it up for new
> entrants?..."
> 
> Whether this is about reinventing final /8 or about people making
> money on IPv4 transfers does not make one jot of a difference.

bingo.  we need to cut the religious zeal crap and remember we have
paying customers who want us to move their packets.  and many of those
packets will be ipv4 for an embarrassingly long time.  we may or may not
like it, but it's reality; get over it.

[ insert repeat of the reasons for the final /8 policy ]

randy, sho works at an isp which deployed ipv6 commercially in 1997