[57571] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrea Abrahamsen)
Mon Apr 14 16:26:32 2003
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 13:25:57 -0700
From: Andrea Abrahamsen <slinky@rogers.com>
To: Brandon Ross <bross@sockeye.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Brandon Ross wrote:
> The solution to the problems posted in this thread about ARIN is fairly
> simple. It's time to deregulate the IP address market and convert to a
> free market approach to allocating IP addresses. If address space could
> be bought and sold on a free market you would no longer have to justify
> your address space to anyone, saving untold amount of resources and costs
> pulling these reports together. Of course, address space wouldn't be
> wasted the way it is today by organizations that hoard it, or by companies
> that go out of business because it would make sound financial sense to
> sell what you don't need.
>
> ARIN (and the other registries as well) could still exist and function as
> a central repository (think of a title registry) of information about the
> current ownership of address blocks.
>
> --
> Brandon Ross AIM: BrandonNR
> VP Operations ICQ: 2269442
> Sockeye Networks
You're kidding, right ?
--
Andrea Abrahamsen
Software Engineer, Intelligent Network Services
Cisco Systems
