[arin-ppml] market musings

[Matthew Kaufman]

Kevin Kargel wrote:
> ...
> A safer and much more secure course of action would seem to be to continue
> doing what one does well, especially when that is backe by a proven record
> of success...
>   
...which will be an entirely irrelevant track record after run-out occurs.

Your whole message is a new packaging of "we should keep doing things 
the same way we've always done them because that's worked well". Which I 
am in 100% agreement with, up to the part where the entire world changes 
and it becomes impossible for ARIN to do that *at all* for IPv4, because 
there simply will not be IPv4 addresses for them to hand out under the 
current policies and procedures.

Of course ARIN also insists that lots of money must be charged for small 
blocks of IPv6 address space, which the trade press reports is so 
plentiful that it could never run out no matter how fast it gets used 
up. Fortunately it will be a lot easier in IPv6 to find unused space to 
start routing without payment, and since it'll be a long time before 
there's any authentication associated with routing (and almost as long 
before people actually figure out how to make their applications do 
reverse DNS lookups on IPv6 addresses), perhaps the relevance of 
registries for both IPv4 and IPv6 will be declining.

Matthew Kaufman