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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>It's like slowing the Titanic down, but not actually
steering it away from the Iceberg.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>However, I'd be inclined to say that at the point that we
are at, any way to give us time, even weeks, is a good thing, provided the
finality of the exercise is to migrate to IPv6. I've heard too much negativity
in recent weeks. Let's keep positive and get everyone involved. Refusing to do
anything is surely the worst scenario?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Plus, there is this psychological "involvement" factor. I
think that if you can get organisations to start returning IPv4 addresses, you
can get them to move to v6. The important thing is that they did something, and
that required a conscious decision on their part, taken, in most cases by a
hierarchy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Personally, I think that organisations are as likely to
return IPv4 addresses as all of us are to clear up all the old, obsolete &
unused data on our disk drives - except, of course, if there's a cost
element.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Warm regards,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Olivier</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=franck@avonsys.com href="mailto:franck@avonsys.com">Franck Martin</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cgrundemann@gmail.com
href="mailto:cgrundemann@gmail.com">Chris Grundemann</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A
title=chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org
href="mailto:chapter-delegates@elists.isoc.org">Chapter Delegates</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 25, 2008 11:16
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Chapter-delegates] scarcity
of IPv4 addresses</DIV>
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<DIV>My understanding is that returning unused IPv4 would make us win weeks
not years so may be too much efforts for little gain?<BR><BR>Toute
connaissance est une réponse à une question</DIV>
<DIV><BR>On 26/10/2008, at 7:57, "Chris Grundemann" <<A
href="mailto:cgrundemann@gmail.com">cgrundemann@gmail.com</A>>
wrote:<BR><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>As one more possible avenue for ISOC to pursue; there was a
recent suggestion on the ARIN PPML by Tom Vest that we look into the idea of
a tax credit to organizations which return space to their RIR (<A
href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2008-October/012386.html"><A
href="http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2008-October/012386.html">http://lists.arin.net/pipermail/arin-ppml/2008-October/012386.html</A></A>).
I think that at least in the US, it has a potential to help and I wonder
what others thoughts
are?<BR>~Chris<BR><BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>