Well said.
I find very weird that people try to put IP brokerage as a normal thing
compared to other usual services that really develop the internet with
evolution and entrepreneurship.
When you buy a router, a server, any network equipment it is yours. You
may do whatever you want with them, develop technology, sell services
and charge as much as you wish.
IP space it is not yours, nor the brokers. It is a shared resource that
has a reason that many keep forgetting does not belong to any company
specifically and are intended to develop the internet and connect
people. There is a reason it is regulated and should be distributed with
fairness by a neutral entity that doesn't have financial interests in it
with rules developed by those who are really building internet.
It is not difficult to distinguish between services that makes a good to
the internet and really develop it and those who mostly speculate about
a resource that doesn't even belong to any of these actors.
Fernando
On 26/10/2023 22:10, Jay Hennigan wrote:
On 10/26/23 16:35, Owen DeLong via ARIN-PPML wrote:
OK, but consider:
Those allocating addresses to customers at a cloud provider — Same exact
issues.
Those allocating addresses to internal usage at a CDN — Same exact
issues.
My point is that there is nothing unique about the inherent COI here
vs. virtually
any other class of user of ARIN services.
I disagree. Those who are in the ISP, cloud provider or CDN business
are in the business of putting the addresses to use to benefit the
Internet community. Number resources are something that are needed for
them to do business.
Address brokers view number resources as a commodity to be bought,
sold and arbitraged. They don't care about the Internet community.
CIDR blocks could just as well be pork bellies or oil and gas futures
as far as they are concerned. Address brokers fare better when number
resources are scarce, as they're more valuable. The others you
mentioned do better when the resources are plentiful.
Do we want those that personally profit by addresses being scarce in
charge of determining ARIN policy?
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