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Dear All,
I've been thinking a lot about recent proposals
regarding
IPv4 transfer,and want to express my reservations concerning those transfer proposals. First of all, I do believe the proposals have good intend,
record transfer to ensure address registration accuracy. But I feel that introducing a transfer at present time
will cause many side effects, some backdoors and loopholes have been discussed in the mailinglist, in addition to that, a transfer policy implicitly recognizes a market of tranfer and attaches a potential 'value' to IP addresses, which may attract some businesses to apply for more IP addresses than their actual need, there for speed up the IPv4 addresses consumption. I understand proposal071/072 are trying to deal with those
issues,
but I think a policy proposal should has its integrity, I also realize that proposal 050 have some safeguards in earlier version, but dropped in order to reach a consensus, but few days later, two new proposals are introduced to supplement proposal 050, trying to mitigate it's risk. So I think proposal 050 is not that mature. More to the point, I feel that policies deal with
transfer
will be easily involved with financial and even legal issues, and to address those issues may be very complex. So I would suggest we only have transfer policy when it's absolutely neccessary. Right now we still have free pool to allocate, we should encourage getting address through regular channel and returning address to RIR when it's no longer in use. Terence China Internet Network
Information Center
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