13 Jun
2008
13 Jun
'08
11:28 a.m.
David
Rival databases, based around IPv4 trading exchanges, will spring up.
Why do you believe this won't happen due the vacuum created by the lack of RIR involvement?
I can only answer with knowledge of RIPE policy. For a trading exchange and rival database to develop there needs to be sufficient certainty in the transfer between two LIRs to enable a contractual agreement to be constructed. The current policy does not allow sufficient certainty because it does not allow transfers except in the extreme case of one LIR buying another LIR. Jay