[address-policy-wg] 2015-05 Discussion Period extended until 13 May 2016 (Last /8 Allocation Criteria Revision)

* Adrian Pitulac <adrian at idsys.ro> [2016-04-15 21:03]:
> I'm a little doubtful that old LIR's restricted themselves from eating up
> all the space. I'm more inclining to believe that certain old LIR's made a
> big business from this, by creating an artificial market and then sold their
> free ip pools on the market for a hefty profit. Not to say about the greedy
> ones who destroyed small ISP's just to make profit from the ip ranges they
> had.

If we didn't have the policy the pool would be gone now and new LIRs
would be forced to buy addresses on the free market. Don't you think
that would've been the goal if "old" LIRs wanted to make money by
selling their addresses?

Most bigger LIRs make money by connecting people to the internet,
believe it or not. The motivation to make money by selling address
blocks only started a while ago and by my observation it's not
primarily the old LIRs trying to make money from it.

Regards

Sebastian

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