> On Aug 20, 2015, at 7:17 PM, Brian Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Mathew, 
> I think we are in agreement on some level. I don't want valuable resources to 
> sit idle either. At the same time arbitrarily handing out large blocks of 
> resources without any real show of need allows for possible misuse of the 
> resources by those who would hang on to them to get a better price or for 
> whatever reason they want.
> 

The IPv4 free pool is now empty, and there are no more large blocks to hand 
out. Is this still a concern when all blocks must be acquired via transfer? If 
so, can you explain why that's more of a concern under the proposed policy than 
under current policy?

> Either way the resources sit idle. I am for a reasonable amount of 
> justification for the amount of resources that can be consumed in a 
> reasonable time period. Defining reasonable in the last two sentences and 
> coming to agreement may be the crux of the matter.
> 
> If the organization was mistaken about how many or how fast they would use 
> the resources, then the process should be able to easily accommodate 
> transfer, selling, or returning them as long as they follow procedures to 
> ensure that documentation records of the resources can be appropriately 
> updated for the good of the Internet.
> 
> In the end there is really not a good way to prevent unused addresses sitting 
> idle. It is up to the recipients of justified resources to be good stewards 
> and use them appropriately and hopefully transfer, sell, or return them if 
> they no longer need them.
> 

Totally agreed. 

-Scott


>> On Aug 20, 2015 9:15 PM, "Matthew Kaufman" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 8/20/2015 1:04 PM, Brian Jones wrote:
>>> 
>>> ​I agree with this simplified requirement but would even be willing to 
>>> accept a 50% within 12 months and 75% in 24 months requirement. Two years 
>>> is a long time to tie up valuable resources that are not being used. IMHO​
>> 
>> I do not understand this reasoning. There is no more free pool. If Org A is 
>> not using "valuable resources" and they are transferred to Org B who was 
>> mistaken about how fast they will use them, then Org B is also not using 
>> "valuable resources". But if instead Org A can't transfer them, then Org B 
>> doesn't get them and Org A still has "valuable resources" which are "tied 
>> up". They're "tied up" not being used either way... and ARIN can't do 
>> anything about it.
>> 
>> If you really want to make sure that these resources don't sit unused, make 
>> it so that after Org A transfers to Org B then if Org B doesn't use all of 
>> them, Org B can sell what they're not using.
>> 
>> Matthew Kaufman
>> 
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