<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 19, 2021, at 10:22 , John Curran <<a href="mailto:jcurran@istaff.org" class="">jcurran@istaff.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On 18 Nov 2021, at 8:14 PM, <a href="mailto:bzs@theworld.com" class="">bzs@theworld.com</a> wrote:<br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">That suggests an idea:<br class=""><div class=""><div class=""><br class="">Repurpose these addresses and allow the RIRs to sell them in the IPv4<br class="">secondary markets with some earmark for the funds. Plus or minus<br class="">perhaps some worthy causes for "free" (not quite free but old school)<br class="">allocations. ...</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div class="">(Sidestepping for the moment the question of technical merits of the proposal…) </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There’s this organization called the Internet Engineering Task Force that has been working hard to establish long-term financial independence and stability via the IETF Endowment project <<a href="https://www.ietf.org/endowment/" class="">https://www.ietf.org/endowment/</a>> –</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Several of the Internet community organizations have made substantial contributions to this goal, but much more will be needed if the IETF is to achieve long-term funding stability. Speaking entirely in my own personal capacity, I believe that long-term financial stability of the IETF is an extremely worthwhile goal for all of us to support and – to the extent that somehow changes to the IPv4 address specification result in a financial upside – I believe that the IETF Endowment would be a very appropriate beneficiary.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>Perhaps this would be a good use of the ICANN Make Money Fast scheme^w^w^w^wNew TLD fund.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Owen</div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>