[arin-ppml] IPv4 Depletion as an ARIN policy concern

[Matthew Kaufman]

Milton L Mueller wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> 3. The BoT determines that blocks of ARIN-managed IP addresses of /24
>>> and larger are not generally available for purchase via the transfer
>>> market for less than $10/address.
>>>       
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> What hat was _that_ number pulled out of?
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That's a good question, because $10/address is pretty clearly "too low" 
for the mechanisms I believe will be the only real source of IP 
addresses (companies with large holdings who don't really need to use 
them behind their firewall, but for whom there is a real transition cost 
to renumbering tens of thousands of machines who  will use the money to 
renumber their IPv4 to RFC1918 space *and* to finish whatever IPv6 
transition they might have started, or at least use that promise of 
money to get the CEO and/or CIO to sign off on the IT department's plan 
to spend time/money that way.)

And we most certainly do need a way to free up some additional IPv4 
space, as it has been clear for over a year now that the transition was 
started too late by almost everyone.

Matthew Kaufman