[arin-ppml] Draft Policy ARIN-2016-5: Post-IPv4-Free-Pool-Depletion Transfer Policy

Matthew Kaufman matthew at matthew.at
Fri Jun 24 14:23:20 EDT 2016


From: "Andrew Dul" <andrew.dul at quark.net>:
>The point of 8.5.2 is to clarify that the community believes that IPv4
>addresses are to be used on operational networks, not as resources to 
>be
>held for some other purpose (e.g. financial speculation).

Why? Who cares? IPv4 is dead. Go deploy IPv6 and ignore what happens 
with IPv4.

If it all gets bought up by speculators then you'll be forced to 
actually build the IPv6 Internet and then the speculators lose all their 
money. Good for you, bad for them. Problem solved.

Matthew Kaufman




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