On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 10:32 AM John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org> wrote:
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/> –
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.
Hi John, That has some clever layers of subtlety to it. Instead of the IETF having to decide when the IPv4 changes have a wide enough deployment to release the addresses for use, they can simply make them available for sale with proceeds to the endowment. When would-be buyers decide they're good enough they'll be bought and used. Regards, Bill Herrin -- William Herrin bill@herrin.us https://bill.herrin.us/