[arin-ppml] An article of interest to the community....

[Mike Burns]

Hi Paul,

I'm an ARIN facilitator.
Can I run an auction today on eBay for address space?
If eBay requires a letter of approval from ARIN, will that be provided?

As to your issue about what happens after IPv4 is at its best and highest 
use, I have given this some thought over the years.
Have you considered that a robust trading market and CGN might buy us enough 
time to come up with some kind of backward compatible successor protocol to 
IPv4?
Proposals for these kind of solutions have been made in IETF but are 
routinely ignored.
To my mind there is room in the IPv4 header to expand the effective address 
space.
GGN does this effectively and largely transparently today using the 
additional room in the  port number part of the header.
Every TCP connection uses IP+port, and we have 65,000 ports per IPv4 
address.

The dual-stack transition is a failure, it is time to recognize that the 
lack of an economic motive for IPv6 created a situation where dual-stack was 
doomed.
John Curran was right back in 1994, it's time to recognize that now: 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1669

And we have gotten pretty darn good at traversing NAT already, despite the 
doomsayers.

It does not further your position to openly wonder whether those who 
"complain" are "hoarders and speculators".

Regards,
Mike Burns



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Vixie" <paul at redbarn.org>
To: <arin-ppml at arin.net>
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 7:04 PM
Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] An article of interest to the community....


> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:19:56 -0400
> "Mike Burns" <mike at nationwideinc.com> wrote:
>
>> http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/08/the-case-for-a-free-market-in-ipv4-addresses.ars
>
> since this article referred to my recent op-ed piece in acm queue...
>
> http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2008216
>
> ...i've replied there as follows:
>
> I think you've misunderstood ARIN's position. ARIN has a designated
> transfer policy which allows for private trading in IPv4 number
> resources. Potential sellers and buyers (and even brokers) can register
> with ARIN to use our listing service, or they can meet up by way of
> e-Bay. When it's time to consummate a transaction and register the
> resources under the buyer's name, ARIN has a process for that. We did
> this to ensure that IPv4 number resources would be maximally utilized
> and so that the Whois records would remain accurate -- because this is
> what the ARIN community decided via the public policy process. Some
> have criticized ARIN's transfer policy because it requires that the
> buyer demonstrate a short term need for the number resources they are
> receiving, but the ARIN community chose to prevent its transfer policy
> being used for hoarding and speculation so those complains might be
> coming from potential hoarders and speculators.
>
> Of greater interest to me is the question: "and then what?" That is,
> let's imagine that ARIN's transfer policy becomes widely used and all
> IPv4 number resources reach what the economists call their "highest and
> best use". Would we simply stop growing the internet at that point? Or
> would the value of these number resources continue to increase, with
> people who can renumber into NAT clouds gradually and forever doing
> that in order to free up address space for those whose network growth
> is not compatible with NAT? To me that's an unattractive future because
> we'll all be spending out time and energy learning how to traverse
> multilayer NAT. So to me the need for a global transition to IPv6
> remains inevitable no matter what happens in the IPv4 number resources
> market. IPv4 is just too small no matter how efficiently the world
> learns to use it. Perhaps some investors (and perhaps some speculators)
> would be well served by lengthening the lifetime of IPv4 by a few more
> years, but the bigger the IPv4 network gets the harder it will be to
> pull it through the knothole of the IPv6 transition.
>
> In summary, ARIN has a transfer policy and ARIN stands ready to record
> the results of private party transactions in IPv4 numbering resources.
> But the real game in the long run is deploying IPv6, not adding a few
> years of life or a lot of layers of NAT to the IPv4 network.
> -- 
> Paul Vixie
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