[arin-ppml] AC candidates

[Fernando Frediani]

Well said.

I find very weird that people try to put IP brokerage as a normal thing 
compared to other usual services that really develop the internet with 
evolution and entrepreneurship.

When you buy a router, a server, any network equipment it is yours. You 
may do whatever you want with them, develop technology, sell services 
and charge as much as you wish.

IP space it is not yours, nor the brokers. It is a shared resource that 
has a reason that many keep forgetting does not belong to any company 
specifically and are intended to develop the internet and connect 
people. There is a reason it is regulated and should be distributed with 
fairness by a neutral entity that doesn't have financial interests in it 
with rules developed by those who are really building internet.

It is not difficult to distinguish between services that makes a good to 
the internet and really develop it and those who mostly speculate about 
a resource that doesn't even belong to any of these actors.

Fernando

On 26/10/2023 22:10, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On 10/26/23 16:35, Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML wrote:
>
>> OK, but consider:
>>
>> Those allocating addresses to customers at a cloud provider — Same exact
>> issues.
>>
>> Those allocating addresses to internal usage at a CDN — Same exact
>> issues.
>>
>> My point is that there is nothing unique about the inherent COI here 
>> vs. virtually
>> any other class of user of ARIN services.
>
> I disagree. Those who are in the ISP, cloud provider or CDN business 
> are in the business of putting the addresses to use to benefit the 
> Internet community. Number resources are something that are needed for 
> them to do business.
>
> Address brokers view number resources as a commodity to be bought, 
> sold and arbitraged. They don't care about the Internet community. 
> CIDR blocks could just as well be pork bellies or oil and gas futures 
> as far as they are concerned. Address brokers fare better when number 
> resources are scarce, as they're more valuable. The others you 
> mentioned do better when the resources are plentiful.
>
> Do we want those that personally profit by addresses being scarce in 
> charge of determining ARIN policy?
>