> 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.
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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