Tony,
[top-posting since that's what you did]
AIUI, the intention is not for the RIRs to be "controlling the market",
but rather to provide the same value they do now: a location where I can
see who is responsible for a given address.
I think the RIRs all have a transfer policy now. So when a prefix is
sold, what amounts to a transfer of deed needs to happen, the same as if
you buy or otherwise acquire land. This is not control of IP sales any
more than the local town deed registry controls the real estate market.
--
Shane
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 10:13 -0700, Tony Hain wrote:
Look at http://www.nro.net/ for the current process. Look at
http://www.ebay.com/ for the process once the IANA & RIR pools are
allocated. There are misguided fantasy discussions about controlling the
market in the RIR context, but given that their charters explicitly say that
they make no statement about the utility or routing of any allocation, they
have absolutely no leverage on whatever transactions a market might produce.
Look to the CIDR deployment filtering wars to see that the business side of
each ISP will beat down the technical side every time, so expect that the
routing system will routinely carry /28-29 IPv4 prefixes in a few years.
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