[address-policy-wg] New on RIPE Labs: IPv4 Transfers in the RIPE NCC Service Region

Three years and one day ago, I wrote on this very list:

"...Personally I'm rather sick and tired of hearing people say 'yes,
let's break
IPv4 so we all MUST move to IPv6'. If you think this is good policy or even
good engineering, please think again. It will make us end up with a broken
internet that, surprise, we won't be managing any more. Breaking IPv4 might
lead to increased IPv6 adoption, but not on the internet as we know it
today. Everybody who wants to connect his organisation to the internet is
going to need at least some IPv4 address space for the time being, so why
screw it up for new entrants?..."

Whether this is about reinventing final /8 or about people making money on
IPv4 transfers does not make one jot of a difference.


Remco

(no hats)



On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:54 PM Sebastian Wiesinger <sebastian at karotte.org>
wrote:

> * Dan Lüdtke <mail at danrl.de> [2015-05-08 11:33]:
> > See, we can not win this games. Let’s stop wasting energy and
> > resources on dealing with legacy IP and how to make it work for a
> > bit longer. New entrants are entering are market that is not fair,
> > and we can not make a real difference. The only way forward is to
> > push IPv6 and restore a healthy climate regarding the availability
> > of IP addresses.
>
> Dan,
>
> if you don't want to invest your time trying to make this market more
> fair by all means go ahead and do something else. There are still
> people here who would like to try so that new players can enter a
> market that will be dominated by IPv4 for some time to come.
>
> Most people here are pushing IPv6 but as much as you want to bury IPv4
> it will still be around for some time.
>
> Regards
>
> Sebastian
>
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