[ppml] IPv4 "Up For Grabs" proposal

[Seth Mattinen]

Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: bill fumerola [mailto:billf at mu.org]
>> Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 2:31 PM
>> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>> Cc: 'ARIN PPML'
>> Subject: Re: [ppml] IPv4 "Up For Grabs" proposal
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 02:08:19PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>> OK, then how exactly is this fact an argument AGAINST arin 
>> simply removing
>>> these records out of it's whois?  Which is what I am suggesting?
>> who does that hurt? the legacy holders or the rest of the community
>> trying to use a tool to find out who to contact when that netblock does
>> something foolish.
>>
>> as a paying ARIN member, i want ARIN to keep track of as much as they're
>> legally, financially, technically allowed to. that WHOIS service is more
>> useful to me, the paying ARIN member, not the legacy holder.
> 
> For now.  What about post-IPv4 runout?
> 

How does whois become less useful after that point?

~Seth