[arin-ppml] TPRC Paper on IP Addresses and Transfer Markets: "Running on Empty: the Challenge of Managing Internet Addresses"

[Tom Vest]

Hi Milton,

This was a collaborative work, and the authors worked hard (!) to find  
as much common ground as possible.
After reading through the full paper, you would probably be inclined  
to revise that to "a paper with Tom Vest's name on it conclude that  
'An approved, well-functioning market is preferable to *many* but not  
all alternatives.'"

Anyway, that's the way I actually did conclude. But that should come  
as no surprise, as that's perfectly consistent with what I've been  
writing here all along. I am not averse to markets, either in general  
or in the vast majority of specific instances; I just have reasons to  
doubt that they'll work -- much less be "well-functioning" -- in  
*this* specific context.

I am finalizing a bunch of things to put online (the long promised  
"other shoe" ++) over the next day or two. There's a link in the  
paper, but I'll ping you directly when the materials are actually up.

Regards,

TV


On Sep 9, 2008, at 10:21 AM, Milton L Mueller wrote:

> Yes, it's especially gratifying to see a paper with Tom Vest's name on
> it conclude that "An approved, well-functioning market is preferable  
> to
> the alternatives." ;-)
>
> --MM
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net]
> On
>> Behalf Of Scott Leibrand
>>
>> I just finished reading this paper, and must say it's very well
> written,
>> does an excellent job of summarizing the issues, and presents some
>> excellent analysis.  I would recommend it to anyone subscribed to  
>> this
>> list, and many others outside our community.
>>
>> Thanks very much for the contribution.
>>
>> -Scott
>>
>> Eliot Lear wrote:
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> We would like to bring to your attention a paper that Bill Lehr, Tom
>>> Vest, and I wrote for the upcoming TPRC conference, at the end of
> this
>>> month, the title of which is "Running on Empty: The Challenge of
>>> managing Internet addresses".  The paper looks at transfer markets
> and
>>> specific proposals from the RIRs and provides pluses and minuses to
> the
>>> theoretical space, as well as some commentary on specific proposals.
>>> The authors concur that the results of the proposed market
> initiatives
>>> will likely depend on variety of identifiable parameters (e.g.,
> specific
>>> transfer policy mechanisms, possible IPv4 reservation policies,
> secure
>>> inter-domain routing initiatives, etc.), but do not agree on the
>>> appropriate weighting of risks.
>>>
>>> In talking about specific RIR proposals we note extreme differences
> in
>>> what we presume to be the assumptions of the authors about ability
> to
>>> enforce regulations and the priorities that an RIR should have.  We
> also
>>> look at the impact of transfer markets on IPv6 adoption, and to a
> lesser
>>> extent, on the interdependency between addressing and routing.
>>>
>>> We hope this paper is useful to continuing a dialog that leads to
>>> appropriate evolution of RIR policies.  You can find it here
>>>
>>
> <http://tprcweb.com/files/Lehr%20Vest%20Lear%20Internet%20Address%20TPRC
> %2
>> 08_15_08.pdf>
>>> or by going to www.tprc.org and looking at the detailed agenda for
>>> Saturday, along with several other interesting and related papers.
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>>
>>> Bill Lehr
>>> Tom Vest
>>> Eliot Lear
>>>
>>>
>>>
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