[arin-ppml] Revised -- Policy Proposal 2009-4: IPv4 Recovery Fund

[Stephen Sprunk]

David Farmer wrote:
> Are you saying that pricing should be completely opaque?   
>
> I think I agree that pricing shouldn't be completely transparent, that is revealing who paid how much for what, that is probably not a good idea.  
>
> But I think a completely opaque system is a bad idea too;  I think what is proposed is fairly close to what is needed.
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> I think a Max, Min, and Average of successful bids for a period like a month is minimally needed to at least exposes what the competitive range of successful biding is.
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> Each bidder wants to minimize or maximize in a particular transaction depending on the role they are playing.  But I think the community overall wants/needs some assurance that the system is fair and functioning properly.  Some minimal transparency is probably the best way to allow the community to evaluate how the system is functioning or not.
>   

I think that, regardless of the exact mechanism of transfers or bidding, 
ARIN should operate a voluntary listing service, as is done in the real 
estate industry.  Sure, you can buy and sell property outside that 
system if you have a good reason, but the vast majority of buyers and 
sellers (at least in arms-length transactions) choose to use the listing 
service because it will provide them the best price.  And, after a bit 
of data accumulates, we will _all_ have a much better idea of the fair 
market value of various size blocks, and there will be even less 
incentive to go outside the listing system.

S

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