[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-172 Additional definition for NRPM Section 2 - Legacy Resources

[Martin Hannigan]

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Astrodog <astrodog at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 6/6/2012 4:13 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:

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> Not to beat a dead horse, but the community consensus seems to very
> clearly be that number resources are not property, and service is not
> guaranteed for those organizations which do not have an agreement with
> the relevant RIR. The service is, instead, provided on a best effort
> basis in the interests of making life easier for everyone involved.


I'm pretty sure that consensus against is not representative. We have
a vocal few who repeatedly bang on the drum, and an extremely large
and silent minority. We know this by the volume of transfer that ARIN
sees, the strong interest by the APNIC folks and their members, the
bankruptcy activity and the fact that we've had at least four
companies create an industry around specifically dealing with IPv4
transfer and markets. At the end of the day, consensus is extremely
difficult to judge on this topic and I think that most understand
this.

Best,

-M<