Hi, On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:44:11AM +0100, michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
New entrants typically want to see predictable prices or else they simply don't enter. Currently, the price for IPv4 addresses is predictable. After a transfer scheme is in place, and speculators take up the remaining free pool, the price of IPv4 will be wildly unpredictable. That situation will block new entrants.
If I understand this right, you're opposing this proposal because you are afraid of speculators? Given that speculators could do this right away (open a startup company, claim ridiculously large customers, let the company sleep for a few years, and then sell the company including the address space for a nice markup) - why do you assume it would become worse with 2007-08? Can we realistically assume that there will not be any address trading if 2007-08 is withdrawn? Or won't it be just the same sort of trading - but without a RIR that keeps track of who can claim rights to what? (If, OTOH, you're right and everbody will go to IPv6 right away, then I don't see why 2007-08 would do *harm*) Gert Doering -- APWG chair -- Total number of prefixes smaller than registry allocations: 128645 SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279