Hello Policy SIG,

I have an idea for 1.2.3.0/24 I would like to share with you before submitting a policy proposal.

Prop-109 properly directed APNIC to use 1.0.0.0/24 and 1.1.1.0/24 for research purposes.  That leaves one more significant prefix to deal with: 1.2.3.0/24.  It is significant because it contains the IP address 1.2.3.4.

1.2.3.4 is a desirable IP address.  It can be used in all sorts of very interesting applications.  It also receives an enormous amount of “junk” traffic every day, so it requires a fairly hefty infrastructure just to start routing it. 

My idea is that APNIC should make this prefix available to all parties who want it. To decide who gets it, I propose an AUCTION where all proceeds go to a charitable endeavor (perhaps a future APNIC Foundation).   As the potential author of such a proposal, and as the IP address manager at Microsoft Corporation, I will guarantee that neither I nor my company will participate in any way in such an auction.  This proposal is not to benefit me or my company.  It is to give the prefix out to a network operator who wants it, in return for money given to charity.

This is a new idea, and is not fully thought out.  So I wanted to post it, get some reactions, and improve the idea.  (Or abandon it if people do not like it.)

Thank you.

David

David R Huberman
Principal, Global IP Addressing

Microsoft Corporation