[arin-ppml] [a-p] Revised -- Policy Proposal 2009-4: IPv4Recovery

[Keith Medcalf]

> > I agree.  I have said before that ARIN should be like the 
> > automotive title group in the state governmnent (at least 
> > like they do it in MD)  Party A wants to sell a car, party B 
> > want to buy.  Party A signs over his title to Party B and the 
> > state, upon deciding the party A title is valid, issues a new 
> > title to party B and collects the appropriate sales tax (ARIN 
> > fees)  Let the free market work within the confines of ARIN 
> > validating the legitimacy of the two parties claims. (i.e. 
> > the numbers were party A's to transfer and party B justified 
> > their need per standard ARIN policy)

> The problem here is that the automotive title group in the state
> government does NOT own the cars that it's titling.  Thus this is
> a very flawed analogy.

> A more accurate analogy is that ARIN is the owner of a large,
> desirable (maybe the rents are cheap) apartment complex with many
> apartments.  Apartment dwellers may want very much to "sell"
> their apartments when they are moving out to new would-be apartment
> dwellers who want to live there, and the would-be apartment
> dwellers may be very willing to "buy" them.  But, the dwellers don't
> own or have control over the apartments.

It is an ABSOLUTELY FLAWLESSLY PERFECT analogy as you just pointed out.  The Car title registrar does not and never did own the cars -- all they have an interest in is the registering and ensuring that each Car is uniquely registered to only one responsible owner.  That is precisely how IP Addresses work.  ARIN does not own them (in fact, no one owns them).  ARINs job is simply to ensure that the "not their property" is uniquely registered to the party who is resposible for it.

As for worrying about selling the same thing multiple times over to different parties, this happens in the meatspace world all the time.  In fact, it has been a meatspace problem for such a loooong loooong time that there is an expression for it in ancient and long dead romance languages:  CAVEAT EMPTOR

Schmucks and schmeels sell the same HOUSE multiple times to different parties and take deposits from all the simultaneous buyers and then abscond with the proceeds.  Usually they didn't even own the thing being sold in the first place.

This analogy is also flawless!

CAVEAT EMPTOR!

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