[arin-ppml] Creating a transfer market for IPv4 addresses

[Tom Vest]

On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:01 PM, Randy Bush wrote:

> secondly, i am highly suspicious of any amateur regulatory causal  
> chains
> this long.  we are sooo good at asserting physics that is not yet
> demonstrated.  hence my inclination to minimal regulatory structure
> until we learn more about reality and depend less on amateur guesses.

Randy, I'm curious; what is your litmus test for distinguishing  
between amateur and expert in a given field?
And what field is it exactly that one would need expertise in, for  
this particular situation, in order to merit something other than  
summary dismissal from you?

Whose guesses -- and whose blunt assertions and summary dismissals --  
get to count more (or maybe at all) in this case, and why?

TV