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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>The fear argument goes something like this:<br>
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When IPv4 runs out some large cash-rich org will request a<br>
block and be denied. That org will then spend it's money<br>
lobbying it's nation's government that the RIR's know that<br>
there's lots of available IPv4 tied up in old assignments that<br>
aren't being used, and that because ARIN has the bulk of it,<br>
and ARIN hasn't done enough to scavenge out this stale addressing,<font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>So far, so plausible. Your
scenario goes comically awry at this point, however:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>that ARIN is no longer functioning, and that the U.N.
needs<br>
to assign a committee - like WIPO was done with the DNS<br>
system - to interfere and take control of the assignment<br>
mechanism away from ARIN.<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>As someone who does a bit
more than “follow” the global politics of Internet governance, I
can assure you that large, cash-rich organizations (ISPs) in <st1:place w:st="on">North
America</st1:place> are the last parties on earth who will want to call in the
United Nations. It is true that the ITU would like to get address
allocation/assignment back into an intergovernmental system. It is also true
that the entire Internet industry and the USG are implacably opposed to that. Outside
of <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> and a few middle
eastern countries like <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Syria</st1:place></st1:country-region>,
you would have a hard time telling me who does support that. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>ARIN will cease to exist and chaos will ensue. <font
color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Really? Just like that? I
shake with fear.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>It is NOT necessary to create a buying-and-selling
market of<br>
IP numbers to obtain close to 100% use of routable IPv4. It<br>
is merely necessary to prove that all assignable, routable IPv4<br>
is in use on the Internet. Cleaning and grooming WHOIS is a<br>
major first step.<font color=navy><span style='color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>What you seem to miss is
that a transfer system, executed properly, is the best way to clean and groom
the Whois system because it harnesses the private incentive to benefit from
trades. ARIN can either swim upstream or swim downstream. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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