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
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