[ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication ofLegacy Resources

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

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>From: ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:ppml-bounces at arin.net]On Behalf Of
>J. R. Westmoreland
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>Subject: Re: [ppml] Policy Proposal 2007-15: Authentication ofLegacy
>Resources
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>Based on my initial reading of this proposal I would agree with Owen.
>
>I have a /24 block, which I have had for about 15 years. I don't
>want to get
>in to a situation like my cable company thought was a great idea
>and have to
>pay $1250 per month to route this address block, or own it for that matter.
>

If we ever are in a situation where people are scrounging around for the
odd /24 of IPv4 that they can use to satisfy a need for IP address
allocation
to the point that they would be willing to contemplate going after a legacy
/24 holder for $1250 per month, I would take that as a definitive proof of
the utter failure to migrate to IPv6 post IPv4-runout.

In other words, the only solution at that time would be for all of us to
admit we failed, and allow the world's governments to come in and order
people to stop using IPv4 - because catastrophic failure of the Internet
otherwise would be imminent by then.

Ted