<div dir="ltr">Although I know there's always going to be loopholes when there's situations where companies start acquiring companies (Like what Microsoft did) in order to acquire assets, including IP resources, I think the process of buying and selling should probably be governed by the regional internet registry. Streamline the process as much as possible but properly evaluate the requirement for acquiring the IP addresses and make sure the motive isn't to simply buy and sell. <br>
<div><br></div><div>Would it be tedious? Yes. </div><div>Is it required? I think so, yes. </div><div><br></div><div style>IPv4 is going to be a sheetfight over the next few years unless trade is regulated. Those of us who will legitimately need more address space are doomed whilst these "brokers" who actually provide no value to what we do collect a cheque on the way through.</div>
<div style><br></div><div style>If company X no longer requires the resources, surely their 'justification' for the allocation is no longer valid.</div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On 21 January 2013 09:32, Scott Howard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott@doc.net.au" target="_blank">scott@doc.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Skeeve Stevens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:skeeve+ausnog@eintellego.net" target="_blank">skeeve+ausnog@eintellego.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Why is the parallel not good?</div></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>Because it's completely pointless to compare two different products, both of which have their own terms and conditions. It's those terms and conditions that will control things like whether you can transfer them between entities, not the fact that they are both things that happen to be used on the Internet.</div>
<div><br></div><div>As it happens, both sets to terms and condition do happen to have rules around transfer, but that doesn't make the analogy good.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>
Scott</div></font></span></div>
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