Bill,

On Nov 10, 2011, at 5:48 AM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote:
>> i am sure the americans who think all address space should righfully be
>> theirs can dream up paranoid scenarios for anything.  but dear canute,
>> the tide is coming, get over it or get wet.
> You're fortunate that you speak for a minority.

I don't think Randy speaks for anyone but himself. Some may, however, agree 
with him.

> If you didn't, we'd
> tell the bunch of you to go to hell instead of valiantly seeking to
> improve the situation in which APNIC finds itself.

Seriously?

It is this sort of attitude that resulted in me giving up in disgust with the 
whole RIR circus.  Well that and a curious note from ARIN counsel (at the 
direction of ARIN's board) to my then corporate counsel purportedly "expressing 
concern" about statements I made in a personal capacity on NANOG. Quite 
amusing, actually, but still disgusting.

A tiny dose of reality: 
- The Internet (and world population as a whole) is growing most rapidly in the 
Asia/Pacific region. 
- There are companies who demand IPv4 addresses for which the combined yearly 
budgets of all the RIRs amounts to little more than a small fraction of what 
those companies spend on their lawyers alone.
- APNIC no longer has IPv4 addresses to meet that demand.
- There now at least 4 different organizations offering IPv4 addresses for sale 
(addrex.net, kalorama.com, tradeipv4.com, ipv4marketgroup.com) who are now 
participating in an estimated at $6 - $8 Billion market (and that's just legacy 
space).

And you believe the couple of hundred folks who participate in ARIN are going 
to stand in the way of those business interests?  I might gently suggest it 
would probably be more useful to figure out how the new market players and the 
"legacy" RIRs can coexist in a way that doesn't do severe damage to the 
Internet than it is to discuss how to rearrange the deck chairs in ever more 
intricate designs in order to try to maintain unjustifiable monopolies.

I might suggest that but as I said, I gave up in disgust.  Tell King Canute's 
advisors I said "hi".

Regards,
-drc


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