Re: Redeploying most of 127/8, 0/8, 240/4 and *.0 as unicast

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

> On Nov 19, 2021, at 10:22 , John Curran <jcurran () istaff org> wrote:
>
> On 18 Nov 2021, at 8:14 PM, bzs () theworld com <mailto:bzs () theworld com> wrote:
> > That suggests an idea:
> >
> > Repurpose these addresses and allow the RIRs to sell them in the IPv4
> > secondary markets with some earmark for the funds. Plus or minus
> > perhaps some worthy causes for "free" (not quite free but old school)
> > allocations. ...
>
> (Sidestepping for the moment the question of technical merits of the proposal…) 
>
> 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/ 
> <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.

Perhaps this would be a good use of the ICANN Make Money Fast scheme^w^w^w^wNew TLD fund.

Owen