[ppml] Policy Proposal: Resource Reclamation Incentives

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of
>Randy Bush

>
>there is a root problem.  rightly or wrongly, folk were given space with
>what we would consider today to be insufficient constraints on contact,
>fees. justification of need, ...  that was a contract, whether we like
>it or not.
>
>the world has changed.  we would like to change those contracts.  well,
>we're gonna have to *negotiate* that.  and acting unilaterally or
>arbitrarily will only polarize and make a mess we just don't need.
>

I don't oppose negotiation.

But the idea to give the legacy holders new IP addressing in perpetuity for
free, without signing an RSA, is not negotiation.  It's merely taking a
bad situation of questionable legality and codifying it.

Ted