Re: 44/8

[Aled Morris via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

The biggest tragedy here is that Amazon now have yet another block of IPv4
which means the migration to IPv6 will be further delayed by them and
people who "can't see the need" because their AWS server instance can get
an IPv4 address.

All of this puts more pressure on the access networks to keep IPv4 running
and inflates the price of the remaining IPv4 addresses.

We need to be pulling together to make https://ipv4flagday.net/ a reality.
No more IPv4.

Aled


On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 12:35, William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 9:26 PM Jay R. Ashworth <jra () baylink com> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "William Herrin" <bill () herrin us>
> >
> > > Personally I've never heard of ARDC.
> >
> > Amateur Radio Digital Communications is the name that's been on 44/8
> > every
> > time I've ever looked at the /8 list, which goes back 2 decades or more.
> >
> > I never assumed it was an organization at the time.
>
> Yeah... It just seems like holding an asset in trust for a population and
> selling that asset without consulting that population (or at least
> consulting the organizations the population commonly understands to
> represent them) is very fishy business.
>
> Having read their explanation, I think the folks involved had good reasons
> and the best intentions but this stinks like fraud to me. Worse, it looks
> like ARIN was complicit in the fraud -- encouraging and then supporting the
> folks involved as they established a fiefdom of their own rather than
> integrating with the organizations that existed. The "appearance of
> impropriety" is then magnified by ARIN deeming the matter a private
> transaction between it and the alleged registrants to which the pubic is
> not entitled to a detailed accounting.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
> --
> William Herrin
> bill () herrin us
> https://bill.herrin.us/