[arin-ppml] Alternative to arbitrary transfers

[Leo Vegoda]

Ted,

On 06/04/2009 1:56, "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at ipinc.net> wrote:

[...]

> My alternative is as follows:
> 
> 1) ARIN continue to use moral persuasion on the legacy holders who
> have excessive assignments but are not paying anything to renumber
> or reduce their utilizations and return blocks.
> 
> 2) ARIN embark on a project to identify abandoned and stale unused
> IPv4, and return it to the assignment pool for reassignment.
> 
> 3) ARIN institute a "bounty" program where someone who identifies
> and provides supporting paperwork to "prove" a specific IPv4 block
> is truly abandoned OR is in use ILLEGALLY is given a credit on their
> yearly bill. (ie: the person here is basically doing the work that ARIN
> staff
> would have to do to certify an abandoned block is really abandoned)
> 
> 4) ARIN modify pricing schedules to more closely bring prices of
> IPv4 addressing in alignment across ALL allocations - in other words,
> remove the discount for ISP's with large quantities of IPv4 - and
> institute a temporary "credit" program to those ISP's who return
> blocks they are already paying for.
> 
> Check the current price list - the largest holders pay the least
> amount of money per IPv4 address.  Big disincentive to returning
> IPv4.
> 
> 5) ARIN continue to apply good stewardship to IPv4 from these 4 sources
> such as combining small blocks to larger aggregates before reassignment.

These aren't actually proposals, though. They are just statements of intent.

A proposal would define a decision making process, so that there was a
mechanism for deciding which of the competing requests for a block of
address space should receive it. That is unless by "ARIN continue to apply
good stewardship" you mean it should continue with a first come first served
process.

Regards,

Leo