[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal -- Normalize Free pool and Transfer justification periods

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 1/13/2012 2:15 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> I think it is skewing prices (more expensive) and creating incentives for people
> to use the transfer market rather than obtaining space from ARIN while there is
> still a free pool.
>
> This is harmful in multiple ways:
>
> First, making things more expensive is rarely beneficial to the community as
> a whole.

One could argue that the current transfer prices are demonstrating how 
much it will cost to NOT move to IPv6.

>
> Second, making the ARIN free pool last artificially longer will only further
> the disconnect between ARIN runout and runout in the rest of the world.
> We're already seeing negative impacts from this  and I believe that situation
> will get worse if we continue to allow the skew to expand.

Agree strongly here. So why not 24 months for both instead of 12?

Matthew Kaufman