Michael and all, I concur with Michael here... michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
as the comment period for the v3 of 2007-08 is nearing its end (one week left), please send your comments about it to the list.
2007-08 <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2007-08.html> is a dishonest policy. It enables buying and selling of IP address blocks without saying anything about how this relates to the statement in RIPE-421 (The IPv6 policy) which says:
It is contrary to the goals of this document and is not in the interests of the Internet community as a whole for address space to be considered freehold property.
RIPE policy and practice already allows LIRs to return surplus addresses to RIPE. If an LIR finds itself in a position to have surplus IPv4 addresses (very unlikely) then why do we need to change the existing practice?
I can see only one motivation for this change, and that is to allow LIRs to sell address space, and I believe that this is contrary to the interests of the entire IP networking community.
2007-08 should be rejected because no consensus has been formed and we have seen very little discussion of the points outlined by Sander Steffann in his email of June 13th. <http://www.ripe.net/ripe/maillists/archives/address-policy-wg/2008/msg0 0382.html>
--Michael Dillon
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