Transfers from whom ? The /24 they are going to get for 1,000,000,000,000,000 dollar from an "old company" ? is this the arin list ...
Let me be more clear. I personally don't think address transfers will save the world, sharing is difficult for most people, let alone if the resource in question is getting more and more scarce.
i doubt many people think transfers will save the ipv4 internet, let alone the world. imiho, they are a small thing that can be done to make dealing with the self-inflited disaster a bit more flexible. and making them easy and open will improve the quality of our registration data.
Maybe it's just me, but transfers with or without money will probably not meet any of the fairness requirements we might come up with and I do think for the sake of it all we might want to try and keep it a level playing field as long as we can to prevent the worst case scenario of a netsplit.
perhaps it is my bad memory, but i have not heard anyone say that transfer will be particularly fair. i believe the proposals under discussion are meant to address that. i was particularly objection to your hyperbole on the likely price of a /24. randy