On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:32 AM John Curran <jcur...@istaff.org> wrote: > 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 <https://www.ietf.org/endowment/> – > > 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.
Hi John, That has some clever layers of subtlety to it. Instead of the IETF having to decide when the IPv4 changes have a wide enough deployment to release the addresses for use, they can simply make them available for sale with proceeds to the endowment. When would-be buyers decide they're good enough they'll be bought and used. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin b...@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/
