Hi Sander, I understand your point, but this already happened with other RIRs and they have no "cheap" pool to fulfil new requests, what happened them and to the prices in their region? Do we have many intra-RIR transfers from RIPE region to other RIRs today? Luckily we still have an /8 in RIPE (and thanks to the old community members for that), but 2016-03 cannot make that much change on draining rate. And I don't think that the pool is that much drained by traders. Yes there is a percentage drained by traders, but comparing to the actual users that's not that much to put this kind of restriction. (We also have enough other restrictions in place) Regards, Arash Naderpour -----Original Message----- From: Sander Steffann [mailto:sander@steffann.nl] Sent: Sunday, 23 October 2016 8:21 AM To: Arash Naderpour <arash_mpc@parsun.com> Cc: Riccardo Gori <rgori@wirem.net>; address-policy-wg@ripe.net Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] 2016-03 New Version and Impact Analysis Published (Locking Down the Final /8 Policy) Hi Arash,
If old businesses depend on selling IPv4 address to new comers and now looking to put some more value on their old blocks, their strategy should not be supported by 2016-03.
I'm sorry, but it's doing the opposite: it will make sure that the remaining pool is not drained by traders, keeping it available for longer for new companies that need them. If the "cheap" pool for newcomers runs out and address transfers become the *only* source for addresses, guess what will happen to the prices. Cheers, Sander