[ppml] Policy Proposal: Resource Reclamation Incentives

[Owen DeLong]

>
>> - Turn in your existing bucket of disjoint small netblocks for
>>   one large, aggregateable netblock.
>
> Hmmm... Thought experiment.
> Entity A has acquired 300 class C address blocks. None of these are  
> used
> at all, just acquired. Entity A goes to ARIN and turns in their 300
> class C's in return for a /16 which is 256 /24 equivalents,  
> therefore it
> is less than their original hoard. Now Entity A markets itself to
> organizations who are concerned about the pending IPv4 shortage. They
> manage to rake in 6 figures for their shell company and the buyer  
> gets a
> /16 to use. Sale is timed to close shortly after the buyer gets their
> next ARIN allocation.

> Obviously this could only occur if Entity A does not have to fully
> justify their space. Currently the wording of the policy does allow  
> for
> this loophole.
>
While it's true that my proposal does not close this loophole, I'll
point out that the existing 4.6 and 4.7 actually allow this person
to get a /15 to sell instead of a /16, so, I still think that the  
proposal
is an improvement over the current state.

Not one of your arguments against my proposal has mentioned
a flaw that is not already present in existing policy.  As such, I think
that my proposal is still an improvement over existing policy.

Owen