[102511] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Feb 18 15:11:38 2008
Cc: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
To: Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <366100670802180918q6ebf3ee8x4397393ea38d30e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:06:45 -0800
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Brandon,
On Feb 18, 2008, at 9:18 AM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> Markets have a history of efficiently allocating resources, this
> much is true. My concern is when IP allocations are based on fiscal
> merit instead of technical merit. Also, don't forget speculators
> within a market. Do you really want the price of IP blocks bid up by
> "IP day traders"?
Presumably, the market would occur when the IPv4 address free pool has
been exhausted. Without a market, there will be no IPv4 address
space. With a market, IPv4 address space will be available at a
price. That price will be constrained by the cost the IPv4-desirous
ISP would face in deploying IPv6 + NAT-PT. If IPv6 + NAT-PT isn't
sufficient, the IPv4-desirous ISP will face a choice of paying
whatever the market will bear or doing without (implying double/triple
NAT, etc.) since there won't be any other alternatives.
It's not clear to me how many people actually understand the
implication of IPv4 free pool exhaustion...
Regards,
-drc
