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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Actually, Paul, a rigid insistence on needs assessments simply gives buyers the strongest possible incentive to deal only with legacy holders and to conduct
the transfers outside of the ARIN 8.3 process.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">In an environment in which the free pool is fully occupied and all address allocations occur through transfers from one party to another, the economic and institutional
justification for needs assessments disappear. More precisely (and there is actually some economic science to be considered here, although I am sure that it will not affect you) the basis for "need" shifts from technical to economic. Given inherent uncertainty
regarding a) the future value of the addresses, b) the speed with we will make the migration to IPv6 if at all, c) the arbitrary time horizon that is imposed on applicants by the needs assessment process (3 months? 6 months? 3 years?), a buyer could easily
fail to qualify for "need" under traditional criteria but the socially efficient thing to do would be to let them buy them.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The idea that ARIN needs to decide who is a valid recipient of IPv4 blocks is just a bump in the road that does no one any good.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">I guess you want to learn this the hard way.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext"> arin-ppml-bounces@arin.net [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces@arin.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Vixie<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 17, 2012 10:27 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> jeffmehlenbacher@ipv4marketgroup.com<br>
<b>Cc:</b> arin-ppml@arin.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-165 Eliminate Needs-Based Justification<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">On 2012-02-17 3:19 PM, <a href="mailto:jeffmehlenbacher@ipv4marketgroup.com">
jeffmehlenbacher@ipv4marketgroup.com</a> wrote: <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Paul, I cannot speak to how other brokers structure their business, but we do not actually hold address space if I interpret you literally. Our Sellers hold the address
space. We are contracted by companies with unused IPv4 blocks to source a company with need. Once a potential needer is identified, we facilitate agreement on price, timing and other conditions of a transfer then provide the necessary legal documents and
guidance to execute the transactions contingent upon ARIN approval. The value of any broker--be it insurance, mortgage, real estate or IPv4 transfers--is subjective but clearly if a Seller and a Buyer prefer to use a broker, they should do so. The Policy
Proposal as written assumes there may or may not be broker involvement in Specified Transfers. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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thank you jeff. it seems that you have misunderstood the current policies, which allow everything you describe, so long as the needer can demonstrate that need to ARIN. there is a place in the "transfer listing service" for brokers, too. i'm at a loss to understand
what it about the current transfer policies that won't fit the model you're describing above.<br>
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paul<o:p></o:p></p>
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