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