From: "Owen DeLong" <[email protected]>
Milton,
Despite your continued assertion of this position, no, there are a
number of us who believe that needs assessment remains valid in the
absence of a free pool as a mechanism to ensure that resources are not
going to organizations without need.
You and others may believe that, but as far as I know, nobody has
produced evidence that shows that needs assessment in fact provides that
mechanism. Whereas there is significant evidence that - despite needs
assessment continuing to be supported as policy - resources are in fact
being locked up by organizations that do not meet the NRPM needs test
(both existing organizations that no longer meet it, and therefore have
addresses for sale - and organizations which are using mechanisms
outside of transfer to assure that their longer-term future needs will
be adequately met.)
While it is clear you do not perceive this as necessary, it does not
make everyone who disagrees with you inherently wrong, nor does it
indicate that we are disconnected from reality.
Until evidence is provided that the needs assessment that you and others
so vehemently argue to continue as policy does in fact perform the
function that you claim it does at this point in the IPv4 lifecycle, I
will continue to take that as an indication that you are "disconnected
from reality", as you put it.
Matthew Kaufman
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