[arin-ppml] About needs basis in 8.3 transfers

[Matthew Kaufman]

On 6/5/2014 2:32 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Personally, I don't believe that IPv4 runout changes the need for 
> policy that attempts to preserve fairness in how addresses are 
> (re)distributed. I realize and respect that you disagree with this. 
> However, my analysis of the continued need for this policy is not 
> based on the context of ARIN still having IPv4. Obviously I can't 
> authoritatively comment on anyone else's perspective and neither can you. 

IPv4 runout certainly changes the need for policy that attempts to 
preserve fairness in how addresses are distributed *from the ARIN free 
pool*. Or at least makes any such policy irrelevant unless/until more 
free pool is generated for IPv4.

The means by which ARIN ensures "fairness" when allocating from the free 
pool are necessarily quite different than any means by which ARIN might 
ensure "fairness" when private parties are making agreements to exchange 
the right to current or future use of address space for money.

Even if there are such means, expecting the *same* policy and mechanisms 
to have an identical effect in both cases is foolhardy, in my opinion.

If you *really* wanted ARIN to be able to use the same policy, we should 
give ARIN enough money that it could incent current holders to return 
their space to the free pool, then allocate from the newly refilled pool 
to exactly the "right" people (those who most fit the established "fair" 
need-based policies).

Or of course tell people to get IPv6 addresses and figure IPv4 is going 
to get pretty ugly no matter what.

Matthew Kaufman