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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Now you would ask ARIN not only whether the
addresses are justified in their opinion, but also to judge the financial
motivations of the participants?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Under what policy would ARIN be able to have legacy
addresses returned to the free pool as you describe?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>In fact, the MS/Nortel deal is not the only
transaction that has occurred, and the existence of tradeipv4.com and other
sites is testimony to the likelihood it will happen again, policy or no
policy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Who knows which 80 companies were contacted?
Wouldn't it be better if the whole thing was conducted in the open, so that
ChinaTelecom could bid as well?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Why not an open and transparent marketplace free
from artifical and easily-scammable justification regimes?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>MIke</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>In fact one could very succinctly argue that precisely this example
could/should trigger the ARIN / ICANN community to now officially adopt a
tighter /explicit policy like example #7 I mentioned.<BR><BR>7) Ask ARIN to
prevent any and all transfers that are motivated purely by financial gain, and
instead insist that such participants return IPv4 allocations to the
unallocated pool "for the benefit of the Internet Community" once the existing
allocation is no longer needed.<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Ray</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>