Hi Owen,
> That
concept has been floated multiple times and is as ill-conceived now as
ever.
> Owen
Times are changing. What was once conceived of as
an orderly transition from IPv4 to IPv6 has bogged down and the current
situation is one where APNIC has run out of available IPv4 addresses while the
Internet is still 99.7% IPv4 traffic.
Asian operators have little choice now but to enter
the IPv4 transfer market.
Since there is no existing policy mechanism for the
transfer of ARIN addresses to APNIC, Asian operators will logically look for an
alternate source.
Legacy addresses which are not under any agreement
with any RIR can be legally bought and sold.
And there is no restriction on these addresses
being routed from any region on the planet.
If the RIRs fail to adopt policies which will
facilitate interregional transfers, and there is no law precluding these
transactions of legacy space, then these transactions will occur.
The author of the article I sent points out that
the current situation drives the need for a private registry for legacy
addresses.
If a private registry is anathema to you, please
consider pushing policies in the ARIN region which would facilitate global
transfers and reduce the need for a private registry.
Because if the RIRs refuse to recognize rational
business transactions, these transactions will be driven either to a private
registry, or worse, driven "off the books" entirely.
Regards,
Mike Burns
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2011 2:53
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Subject: Re: [sig-policy] Article of
possible interest to the community
That concept has been floated multiple times and is as
ill-conceived now as ever.
Owen
On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:00 AM, Mike Burns wrote:
Hi Owen,
I came across a response to Mr. Vixie's article
and thought it might be of interest to the APNIC community, particularly as
it mentions pending IPv4 legacy address sales to Asian
customers.
The concept elucidated is a private registry
for legacy addresses which would have no restrictions on interregional
sales, thus allowing the legal transfer of legacy IPv4 address into
Asia.
Regards,
Mike Burns
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 8:31
AM
Subject: [sig-policy] Article of possible
interest to the community
I came across this ACM article and thought it might be of
interest to the APNIC
community as well...
Owen
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