[arin-ppml] Microsoft receives court approval for transferasagreed with ARIN

[Owen DeLong]

On Apr 29, 2011, at 6:46 AM, Mike Burns wrote:

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>> I would support increasing the restrictions or abandoning the transfer
>> policy.
>> 
>> I would not support reducing the restrictions.
>> 
>> Owen
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> Owen,
> 
> On the choice I posed yesterday about the proper role of stewardship in a post-exhaust Internet I asked:
> 
> Should we hasten IPv4's demise, or should we make policy to bring as much supply into the ARIN market as possible?
> 
> Would it be safe to say that you are in the "hasten the demise" camp?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Mike

Not at all. I personally believe that increasing the number of disaggregated prefixes (an obvious
likely outcome of an unrestricted transfer market) is the fastest path to hastening the demise
of a useful IPv4 internet.

As such, I believe that preserving stewardship is more important than maximizing the profits
of people who want to monetize their addresses.

Owen