Greetings all, I hope that no one will take this the Wrong Way, as I really do not have any intention of even remotely suggesting any untwoward behavior on the part of anyone associeted in any way with APNIC, but I would like to ask a question here, which I already have asked also on one of the RIPE policy mailing lists, and which it is my intention to put also to all five of the Regional Internet Registries.
Quite simply, the last dozen years or so have seen a dramatic rise in value, basically from zero to some very large numbers, for salable IPv4 address blocks. This rapid and steep rise in value has created some incentives for people that, a dozen years ago, didn't even exist. Quite obviously, employees of the various RIRs are in a rather unique position to profit from these recent rises in value of IPv4 addresses, over the past few years, if they elected to do so. For this reason, I ask the following simple question: Does APNIC have any sort of "conflict of interest" or other sorts of ethical rules which would prohibit APNIC employees from actively participating, either directly or indirectly, in the current open market for IPv4 address space? I wish to stress again that no one should make any inferences at all, based on my question, and that it is my intention to put this same question to all five of the Regional Internet Registries. Furthermore I would like to state for the record that I have nothing but the highest respect for everyone associated with APNIC, all of whom have impressed me, over time, as being consumate and dedicated professionals, and that all of the APNIC people I have interacted with have displayed nothing other than the highest ethical standards at all times. Regards, rfg _______________________________________________ apnic-talk mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/apnic-talk
