> And yes, I think the 50EUR should be put on a ladder scale so hoarders get charged exponentially more. ;-)
They would just start to put IPV4 blocks behind shell companies.
They would just start to put IPV4 blocks behind shell companies.
Several people on the list, including someone who has made quite the sum from collecting allocations and then reselling them, were outraged that this is going on and deem it in violation of the spirit of the waiting list (that spirit being that it is supposed to give small entrants one last method of getting onto the Internet with their own /24). One of the proposed changes is to make transfers of IPv4 space received via the waiting list non-transferable retroactive to January 2021. Of course, transfers that have already happened wouldn't be reversed, since that wouldn't "be fair." Thus, all of the people who got the last "free" /22 blocks around November 2019 and who have gone on to resell those addresses (like the participant on the list who is now advocating that addresses shouldn't be allowed to be transferred) when the 24-month transfer delay expired get to keep their gains. Everyone who comes after who signed up under those rules gets the rules changed out from underneath them.
The whole system of dealing with IPv4 assignments and allocations has gotten completely out of hand. We have these large entities all acting like they are just volunteers doing a charitable thing keeping this polite ad-hoc system going, when that hasn't been true for at least a decade.