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RE: IPv4

2007-08-06 12:13:15
 As for your repeated appeals to senior management, who do you think
is more likely to share our values, engineers or managers?

 To date, the debate has been dominated by engineering concerns. However
I think the concerns of senior managers are more relevant and, in
general, support the current regime. The risk of losing ones IP
addresses because one has not signed a Registration Services Agreement
with an RIR is a very important risk. This is the kind of thing that can
destroy a business and avoiding such risks is what leads senior managers
to demand that services, software and hardware are purchased from
reputable vendors under contracts that are highly likely to be
enforceable.
 
In addition, I think that the whole idea of "SELLING IP ADDRESSES" is
driven by engineers who have been hoarding a /16 or so since the early
days of the Internet in hopes of getting rich some day. Senior
management is more likely to look at the situation and realise that
there is not sufficient liquidity for a stable market to form, even if
the RIRs were to take the position of market makers.
 
Fortunately,  the engineers in the IETF have provided an out in the form
of an abundant supply of virtually free IPv 6 addresses and a series of
interworking mechanisms that allow an IPv4 Internet and an IPv6 Internet
to interoperate with little pain.
 
--Michael Dillon
 
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