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<DIV>So that makes ARIN the loan shark, charging the street
corner</DIV>
<DIV>pimp for protection??</DIV>
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<DIV>I was of the understanding as well, that the legacy's would be
left</DIV>
<DIV>alone. Im only talking about one class C however. There are plenty
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<DIV>them out there that are likely wasted.</DIV>
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<DIV>Make it easy to transition!</DIV>
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<DIV>Ray </DIV>
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Message-----<BR>From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@ipinc.net><BR>To:
"'John Curran'" <jcurran@istaff.org>, "'Michael K.Smith'"
<mksmith@adhost.com><BR>Cc: arin-ppml@arin.net<BR>Date: Sat, 23 Aug
2008 23:52:20 -0700<BR>Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN's Authority - One view
(was: Re: LRSA concerns)<BR><BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>> From: arin-ppml-bounces@arin.net <BR>>
[mailto:arin-ppml-bounces@arin.net] On Behalf Of John Curran<BR>> Sent:
Saturday, August 23, 2008 10:40 AM<BR>> To: Michael K.Smith<BR>> Cc:
arin-ppml@arin.net<BR>> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN's Authority - One
view (was: <BR>> Re: LRSA concerns)<BR>> <BR><BR>> <BR>> The
only direct implication of the LRSA with respect to IPv4 <BR>> depletion
is each legacy holder who signs the LRSA is one <BR>> less block that is
subject to being hijacked in the coming <BR>> period of IPv4 free pool
depletion. We can do a lot to <BR>> refresh contact information,
but a current contractual <BR>> agreement is the best protection.<BR>>
<BR><BR>Frankly, the existence of a large number of legacy holders<BR>who
refuse to sign the LRSA would be a Good Thing from one<BR>respect.
Reason being is that it would increase the amount<BR>of trouble that
IPv4 would be for the Internet community<BR>post-IPv4 runout, and would be a
big incentive for people<BR>to start considering the IPv6 network on the
Internet as the<BR>more trustworthy of the two.<BR><BR>Think of the IP
numbering pool as a city and IPv4 as the red-light<BR>district full of
moldering brownstones and IPv6 as the nice new<BR>mall/retail/condo
section.<BR><BR>All of us are living in the brownstones right now but<BR>in
20 years most of us are going to be in the strip mall & condo<BR>
section, shaking our heads over the morning paper at the<BR>latest hijacking
in the IPv4 district and writing letters<BR>to our city to put more cops in
there to run the bums out<BR>of town.<BR><BR>The Legacy holders who cling to
their large IPv4 holdings are<BR>going to end up with the pimps, whores and
drug dealers of<BR>the IPv4 Internet.<BR><BR>In healthy cities with good
urban renewal programs that do not<BR>have a collapsed central core, every
year the red light district<BR>gets smaller and smaller because the amount
of trouble it causes<BR>is disproportionately higher than the benefit it
brings to the<BR>city (especially since most of the porn has gone online
these days<BR>the adult bookstores aren't even putting money into the city
tax<BR>roles anymore)<BR><BR>So, I encourage the Legacy holders that don't
want to stop<BR>using their IPv4 holdings. The more of you that are
out there<BR>doing it, the quicker the rest of us will get tired of
dealing<BR>with all the trouble your causing and the faster we will
switch<BR>to IPv6 and leave you to your crummy network.<BR><BR>How's that
for a visual? ;-)<BR><BR>Ted<BR><BR> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT>
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