On Feb 3, 2011, at 7:30 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: > On Feb 3, 2011, at 10:11 AM, Jon Lewis wrote: > >> The real fun's going to be over the next several years as the RIR's become >> irrelevant in the acquisition of scarce IPv4 resources...and things become >> less stable as lots of orgs rush to implement a strange new IP version. > > Supposedly[*] transfers between private entities are still supposed to be > justified to the local RIRs. (At least that's how it works in ARIN's area.) > The only registry where it doesn't work that way at this time is APNIC.
RIPE is unfortunately considering the APNIC model. Fortunately, APNIC is reconsidering their model. Owen
