On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:14 PM, Owen DeLong <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jun 18, 2013, at 7:14 PM, Mike Burns <[email protected]> wrote: >> 1. It has been argued that the larger ISPs have the prior advantage of >> holding highly valuable alienable assets which they received for free, which >> provide them with a competitive advantage over less endowed entities seeking >> to purchase addresses at a much higher relative price. > > Yes, it has been argued. It hasn't necessarily been substantiated, nor has > anyone raising said argument provided any real evidence to support it.
Of course the incumbent's assets offer a competitive advantage over the challenger. With such a prima facie case, the burden rests on who disagree to disprove it. What's less obvious is: 1. Is this unreasonable? 2. How do ARIN's policies interact with this otherwise natural state of affairs? Favorable/neutral/disfavorable to the incumbent/challenger? 3. Is that unreasonable? >> Remember the cap on needs-free transfers is designed to free up the market >> to incentivize more transactions, each of which presumably entails the move >> of addresses from lower-use states to higher-use states, while providing >> some protection for market manipulations. I think I would cautiously favor an experiment in this realm: * Limit needs-free transfers to receiving one transfer of /20 or less per year per organization, * Keep the needs analysis for free pool assignments with a presumption that a quick transfer out indicates fraud in the original registration, * Include a strong publication requirement. Originator and recipient to be explicitly and publicly called out by ARIN with full details so that anyone can monitor the status of the experiment. * We don't consider expansion from /20 until at least 200 such transfers go through so that we can work with real data when predicting the efficacy of an expanded policy. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William D. Herrin ................ [email protected] [email protected] 3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <http://bill.herrin.us/> Falls Church, VA 22042-3004 _______________________________________________ PPML You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Public Policy Mailing List ([email protected]). Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at: http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-ppml Please contact [email protected] if you experience any issues.
