[arin-discuss] [ppml] Counsel statement on Legacy assignments?

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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>[mailto:arin-discuss-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of Ron Cleven
>Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 3:37 PM
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>Subject: Re: [arin-discuss] [ppml] Counsel statement on Legacy
>assignments?
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>Even under those ridiculous circumstances, ARIN could switch all other
>non-legacy IPV4 holdings to scale their annual dues directly
>proportional to the size of their IP space.  Once that "price" per IP is
>established, they could act as a broker for legacy-holders to "monetize"
>(gee, what a great word you used) their IPV4 holdings.  That is, legacy
>holders could retire their IP space for the same price as new IP space
>is issued for.  It would be amusing to see all of the legacy holders
>(and big ISP's) line up to sell their IP space (first-come,
>first-served, boys).  The cost to ARIN would be purely an administrative
>one, because ARIN would only purchase blocks based upon need.  And
>because the net effect would be a self-policing system, their total
>administrative burden would be reduced.

I'm not sure how exactly the legacy holders can start selling blocks of
IPv4 when they have assigned so much of it to coke machines and doorknobs.
;-)

I think the fundamental issue here is laziness.  The big legacy holders
don't want to hand back IPv4 not because they intend on "moneyizing it"
and not because they are going to need it in the future.  The big holders
don't want to hand it back because it would require them to expend effort
to renumber into a smaller block, AKA "efficiently utilize" it.

Ted