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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Thanks, Scott, these are useful discussion points. see below</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> Scott Leibrand [mailto:sleibrand@internap.com]<BR></FONT><FONT size=2><BR>> - If addresses are still available "for free" from ARIN, then an<BR>>argument has been made that the only people that would want to acquire<BR>>addresses via transfer in advance of exhaustion would be organizations<BR>>that don't qualify for space under current policy.</FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT size=2>But the ARIN policy doesn't allow you to receive addresses via transfer if they think you don't qualify under current policy anyway. You have to "prequalify." See Section 8.3.2. (This I think will prove to be a fatal flaw in the policy but that goes to another question.) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>> - If, as in 2008-2, we allow the transfer of legacy class C's (/24s),<BR>>then allowing people to start using the policy early would constitute an<BR>>end run around the /22 limitation in the current PI policy. In other<BR>>words, organizations that wouldn't qualify to get PI space would be able<BR>>to acquire it on the transfer market instead.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>At first blush this doesn't strike me as an inherently bad thing. Can you tell me what harm it does? </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>>The main counterarguments to waiting too long to start allowing<BR>>transfers is that we'd like to work out the kinks in the system before<BR>>exhaustion hits, and that getting started early allows the market to<BR>>gradually settle on a price as volume gradually increases.<BR><BR>Another argument is that address blocks are pretty fungible, so if I get an address block from source A instead of ARIN, then ARIN has more to give out the traditional way. </P></FONT></BODY></HTML>