[arin-ppml] Alternative to arbitrary transfers

[Seth Mattinen]

William Herrin wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
>>> Assuming that people agree to return space to ARIN without the encouragement
>>> of a chunk of cash that a transfer market might bring, how should ARIN
>>> decide which requests to grant and which to deny when there are more
>>> requests than space available? The options I see (in no particular order)
>>> are:
>> IP addresses aren't the property of the holder, thus they should not be
>> able to sell or profit from the exchange of something that doesn't
>> belong to them in the first place.
> 
> Seth,
> 
> Should it be legitimate to for me to compensate you for the cost of
> re-engineering your network so that it consumes fewer IP addresses
> than it used to? Thereby freeing up some IP addresses that I can use?
> 

Give me a number high enough and I'd consider it. Make it large enough 
and I'll just retire and "transfer" it to you.

~Seth