Yes, I'm looking... It seems that each RIRs has got its own voice and is driven by its own constituency for policy formulation. And then there are the NICs,...
Right, each RIR is self governing. But since, by good fortune, they're all fairly well run, they all have fairly consistent allocation policies. By the way, does everyone understand that the RIR's don't take instructions from ICANN? ICANN can make suggestions, the RIR's can do whatever they want. In theory IANA could refuse to allocate the remaining /8's but that would be self defeating for obvious reasons.
If you're worried about a black market in IP space, that's going to happen no matter what ICANN does, so I wouldn't waste a lot of time trying to stop it.
It is not about to stop it, but about to lessen its impact, till IPv6 is widely used.
The black market in IP space has already existed for a decade. It'll certainly become more active as IPv4 space becomes harder to get, but that's just how it is. Since neither the RIRs nor ICANN can control who announces what IP space, there's no way to stop it. Efforts to use moral suasion to stamp it out have been notably unsuccessful. R's, John