[arin-ppml] FW: Policy Proposal 2008-6: Emergency TransferPolicyfor IPv4 Addresses - Last Call

[Matthew Kaufman]

Kevin Kargel wrote:
>> Kevin Kargel wrote:
>>     
>>> It is a shame that so many people take the lazy approach of trying to
>>> regulate a problem by artificially raising the cost of the commodity
>>>       
>> without
>>     
>>> thought as to how that is going to affect the average family.
>>>       
>> Yes. Instead of raising the price of beef when there's a shortage of
>> cows, we should keep the price at the same government-set
>> family-friendly value, and then have everyone stand in very long lines
>> when it arrives at the butcher.
>>     
>
> Umm, when there are only four steaks left and 40 people that want them
> aren't there going to be lines no matter what the price?  
>
>   
The price should rise to that which only the top four bidders can 
afford, no?

But my view is that if the price got *that* high, there wouldn't be 
"only four steaks left" any more... a whole lot of people could figure 
out how to renumber out of (most of) their space if that happened, *or* 
it would be expensive enough that the cost (mostly non-monetary) of 
using IPv6 instead wouldn't seem that bad.
>>  The socially conscious people who also have zero transition cost,
>> or who are so socially conscious that they are willing to donate their
>> own time and equipment budgets (or those of their employer) to giving
>> the addresses to others.
>>     
>
> While rare, there are altruistic people and even altruistic companies out
> there that are concerned and active about social ethics.  All I can do is
> bemoan their rarity and applaud their efforts and sacrifice.
>
>   
They're mostly people not subject to shareholder lawsuits for not doing 
the best thing for the company (in the next quarter).

Matthew Kaufman