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Re: [sig-policy] IPv4 countdown policy proposal



David Conrad wrote:

c) say to the customer "Here is one (1) IPv4 address. Go NAT your enterprise"
d) say to the customer "Here is a /48 for IPv6.  Go NAT your enterprise"

There are enough NAT unfriendly protocols for this to be really unattractive to some clients once they find out the limitations. Anyway a small part of the problem has been that one (1) address is seldom enough; a /29 or /30 is generally the minimum usage.

e) wave money around and say to the black market "name your price!"

I wonder on thinking about this how practical a black (or white) market would be given the minimum size of a routable block. I guess it really only applies to the historical allocations.

I think you might have missed one:

f) Brief their lawyers to go after the RIR's and access the 'reserve'.

Now here's a plan that should work for a customer or even an ISP.