I would just point out that john postal gave out resources freely and let the market take the Internet where it wanted and a great thing happened. I think we should be following his model and I will keep advocating for it.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 25, 2014, at 12:23 AM, "Owen DeLong" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Feb 24, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Matthew Kaufman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On 2/24/2014 2:20 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: >>> I disagree. I don’t want to see flipping become a tool for speculation in >>> the market post-exhaustion, any more than I want to see it become a tool >>> for draining the free pool. In fact, I think that the former might be >>> significantly more harmful than the latter at this point. >> >> I don't get it. You want everyone to switch to IPv6 as soon as possible, and >> yet you don't want the IPv4 market to experience speculation that is >> detrimental to continued use of IPv4?!? > > This is because you are ignoring a certain reality of my situation. > > Personally, I want everyone to switch. I believe that is best for the > internet and best for everyone involved. I want to provide as many incentives > and motivations to accomplish that. > > However, as an AC member, my responsibility is to act as a good steward of > the address space on behalf of the community. Speculation, while it may > indirectly serve my personal goal above, will not directly serve the > community and is definitely not good stewardship of the address space. > >>> I don’t see a problem with that. I have no desire to encourage transfers as >>> a primary choice. I think it is, in fact, just bad policy to do so. >>> Transfers should, IMHO, be viewed as a last resort when free pool options >>> have been exhausted. >> >> I believe they'd be the "last" "first" and "only" resort, wouldn't they? I >> mean, if you *need* IPv4, and there's no free pool, what else can you do? > > Currently, there is still a free pool. There are those that are advocating > distorting policy to make transfers more attractive than draining obtaining > addresses from the free pool in hopes of keeping the free pool around for an > artificially long time. It is my opinion that such policies are harmful both > in terms of creating an artificial extension of the lifetime of the free pool > and in terms of distorting the free market aspects of managing transfer > policy. > > Owen > > _______________________________________________ > 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. _______________________________________________ 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.
