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

[Owen DeLong]

On Aug 30, 2011, at 8:53 PM, Matthew Kaufman wrote:

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> On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:01 PM, "Mike Burns" <mike at nationwideinc.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Paul,
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>> I'm an ARIN facilitator.
>> Can I run an auction today on eBay for address space?
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> Sure you can. Of course the moment you do, that space is immediately suspected of being under-utilized and one would expect a Section 12 resource review to be in progress before the auction even closed. Particularly inconvenient if nobody meets your reserve.
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While auctioning your space is not an automatic free pass on section 12, I know that ARIN is
being extremely careful not to conduct arbitrary section 12 audits against people who merely
seek to auction their space.

> I do wonder how much space we could free up in the region today if people could advertise it's availability without this threat, and yet I believe the odds of removing all resource review and reclamation via the PDP is pretty much a non-starter, so I'm not going to waste my time with a policy proposal.
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You can advertise the space availability without that threat. Your post is a red herring.

Owen