On Jun 10, 2014, at 16:39 , Brandon Ross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Jun 2014, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> Your third item is absurd. If they don't find sellers with that much space, >> then it means the market isn't as large as described and the problem is even >> worse and market capture is even easier. Without a needs test or the other >> restrictions in 8.3, it would not take years, it would take days. Address >> space would be swept away as fast as it came available on the market. It >> would be IP lotto for the uber-wealthy corporations. > > If these bad actors are willing to spend such amounts of money to capture the > market, why wouldn't they do this with the needs test in place simply by > locking up all the space under contracts instead?
I can't guarantee that they won't. However, if it gets discovered that they have, the collusion required to do so might have interesting implications under the Sherman act. I might be wrong, but I think it would be much harder to make a Sherman Act case if community policy permitted the unrestricted outright sale and transfer. 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.
