Ownerless PI Revokation, was Re: [address-policy-wg] Revised2007-01...

> Nothing 
> prevents the RIR-community from changing the rules to reclaim 
> un-announced space *if* there is consensus in support for 
> such a move.

There never will be consensus as long as I, and other people
from global IP network operators are involved in RIPE policy
making. I would say that is a guarantee that there will 
*NEVER* be any change to addressing policy which would give
public Internet usage some kind of priority over private
internet usage.

My company has an important part of our business, i.e. very 
important customers, using a global IP internet which is not
interconnected to the public Internet. Let me quote from the
July 1st issue of Waters magazine, a publication serving the
technology side of the global financial services industry:

    In one of the few categories to remain completely unchanged
    in this year's rankings, BT Radianz has clinched a fifth
    successive victory in the race to be the best financial
    network provider. Since 2004, Waters readers have 
    consistently voted for Radianz and that trend shows no 
    sign of changing just yet.

That global IP internet is one of the many non-public internets
that are used by multiple companies in one industry or another.
Some of these networks are big, like ours, for instance in the
automotive industry or in aviation. Others are small and are
basically an extranet with a handful of business partners who
want to exchange IP traffic but do not want it to transit the
public Internet.

This is the reality of today, where IP networking technology
is ubiquitous. That does not mean that everyone just plugs into
the nearest Internet access connectivity. It means that private
internets are growing faster, and some day they may be growing
collectively faster than the public Internet. 

--Michael Dillon