5 Sep
2017
5 Sep
'17
10:36 p.m.
All,
Having personal experience with selling legacy IP space, the money would go to the
corporation (ARDC) that owns the /8... not ARIN or the US Government.
That money could be used for whatever the corporation wanted.
I am not suggesting the sale just sharing based on experience.
73,
John L. Ricketts, PhD
KI5D
> On Sep 5, 2017, at 21:08, David Ranch <amprgw(a)trinnet.net> wrote:
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> Hello Mike,
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>> . . .The 44/8 block will likewise become another hunk of
>> once-valuable junk, so unless the community wishes to enjoy again the
>> bittersweet feeling of regarding that junk it would be advisable to consider
>> engaging in some sales.
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> To what end? I believe we aren't here for the money. Even if we were to sell
off a bunch of /16s, where would that money go since we're considered LEGACY? It
wouldn't go back to Brian, or UCSD, any of us AMPR users, or even any HAMs. No, it
would go to ARIN or some other bureaucratic part of the US government and just be absorbed
in the "general plan". Poof!
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> I completely understand the value of IPv4 addresses due to their scarcity but I
don't think that something we never paid for should be charged an extreme premium for
($17.88 per IP). Call me a fossil but it just rubs me the wrong way. My $0.02.
>
> --David
> KI6ZHD
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