Re: Fwd: Suggestion: charging for IPv4 space

David and all,

  Your porbably right that it's too late to be dramatically effective.
What this demonstrates to me as the lack of good IP address
managment historically.  Sorry to be so blunt.

David Conrad wrote:

> On Oct 21, 2008, at 4:23 PM, Jeffrey A. Williams wrote:
> > But don't you think much more can be done via reclamation?
>
> Can?  Sure.  For example, policies could be instituted to encourage or
> require increased efficiency in IPv4 utilization in order to
> implicitly increase the effective cost of obtaining new IPv4 resources
> (as well as prolong the IPv4 free pool lifetime).
>
> However, given the way RIR policy definition works, I don't believe
> there is sufficient time to establish the necessary consensus for any
> policy that would significantly affect the outcome to be instituted.
> As I mentioned to someone privately, the Titanic is too big and moving
> too fast to avoid the iceberg...
>
> Regards,
> -drc

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