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

agree.

John Springer

On Fri, 8 May 2015, remco van mook wrote:

> 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)
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> On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 1:54 PM Sebastian Wiesinger <sebastian at karotte.org> wrote:
>       * Dan L?dtke <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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