Re: [sig-policy] prop-086: Global policy for IPv4 allocations by the IAN

To: Randy Bush <randy at psg dot com>
Subject: Re: [sig-policy] prop-086: Global policy for IPv4 allocations by the IANA post exhaustion
From: John Curran <jcurran at mail dot com>
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:08:05 +1000
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> the whole world except arin agreed to a policy.  arin wants it
> different.  and what is different?  arin has more aggressive recovery
> plans and wants to keep and sell the loot.

I'm not certain I can sufficiently distance myself from ARIN in 
order to voice personal opinion, but I'll try...  In my purely
personal opinion, making returned address space available to the
IANA is essential, just as allowing transfers of address space 
between regions is essential. However, in either case, it's is 
equally important to maintain the current needs-based allocation
framework for these processes. The central issue is the departure 
from needs-based that simply hasn't been agreed to by all of the 
regions.

/John
(personal view)