[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Draft Document Published (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)
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Jeffrey A. Williams
jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com
Wed Oct 8 02:56:26 CEST 2008
Michael and all, I concur with Michael here... michael.dillon at 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 Regards, Spokesman for INEGroup LLA. - (Over 281k members/stakeholders strong!) "Obedience of the law is the greatest freedom" - Abraham Lincoln "Credit should go with the performance of duty and not with what is very often the accident of glory" - Theodore Roosevelt "If the probability be called P; the injury, L; and the burden, B; liability depends upon whether B is less than L multiplied by P: i.e., whether B is less than PL." United States v. Carroll Towing (159 F.2d 169 [2d Cir. 1947] =============================================================== Updated 1/26/04 CSO/DIR. Internet Network Eng. SR. Eng. Network data security IDNS. div. of Information Network Eng. INEG. INC. ABA member in good standing member ID 01257402 E-Mail jwkckid1 at ix.netcom.com My Phone: 214-244-4827
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