[ppml] NANOG IPv4 Exhaustion BoF

At 06:01 p.m. 04/03/2008, David Conrad wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:27 AM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> > Leo Bicknell made the point that without this policy or something
>
> > like it, the world becomes set in stone after IPv4 runout.  Haves
> > have and have nots have not and there's no way for that to change.
>
>
>To be blunt, this strikes me as astoundingly hallucinatory.
>
>Without some form of transfer policy, ARIN simply becomes irrelevant
>as address consumers go to the "black" market in order to meet their
>requirements.

Or they adopt IPv6.
Which are the factors that will make take one 
decision or other is an interesting discussion.

Raúl




>With a transfer policy, ARIN _may_ retain some relevance as a source
>of "title" information, but a lot depends on the restrictions ARIN
>attempts to impose.  Make the policy too restrictive, and people will
>go elsewhere.
>
>In the end, with or without a transfer policy, you're still out of
>"free" IPv4 addresses and businesses will do what they feel is
>necessary to get around unenforceable bureaucratic rules.
>
>Regards,
>-drc
>
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