Independent space from ARIN

Mon Apr 14 20:19:50 UTC 2003

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.

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Brandon Ross                                                   AIM:  BrandonNR
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