[arin-ppml] market musings

[Tom Vest]

Go back and read RFC 2050 again.
Managing the consequences of address scarcity is only one (of at least  
three) key requirements that the RIRs were chartered to manage.

TV

On Apr 30, 2009, at 10:20 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

> 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
>
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