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

John Curran jcurran at istaff.org
Wed Jun 18 07:32:48 EDT 2008


At 8:01 AM +0900 6/18/08, Randy Bush wrote:
>personally, i believe that the first assumption, market produces
>fragmentation, is very weak.  it just changes where you get space, not
>what you do with it.  of course there will be some effect, but nothing
>like the crap-think that makes the current routing table over half /24
>rubbish.
>
>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.

What transfer policy would you propose based on the above beliefs?
/John



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