[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: IPv4 Recovery Fund

[Hawkes, Dave]

Thanks

I believe you are correct about maintaining a balance with ARIN, it would be a lot of excess work on ARIN for no real benefit to anyone.

-----Original Message-----
From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com] 
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 5:30 PM
To: Hawkes, Dave
Cc: arin-ppml at arin.net
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Policy Proposal: IPv4 Recovery Fund


On Nov 21, 2008, at 3:35 PM, Hawkes, Dave wrote:

> How do organizations that return IP blocks, but do not wish to receive 
> monetary compensation fit into this?  If an ORG returns a block of a 
> given size, would that effectively lower the amount others may need to 
> pay for that sized block, or would it satisfy requests without 
> requiring payment?
>
I would think that space would be returned to the free pool as in the current policy situation. Fees would only relate to space for which ARIN had paid a recovery incentive.

> Also, instead of receiving payment from ARIN, could an ORG use the 
> funds to offset future fees, effectively keeping a balance with ARIN?

I'm not so sure about this.  I think as an operational matter, this would be pretty hard on ARIN.

Owen