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RE: And so it ends...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Lewis)
Thu Feb 3 10:40:29 2011

Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2011 10:17:22 -0500 (EST)
From: Jon Lewis <jlewis@lewis.org>
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@corp.nac.net>
In-Reply-To: <FF5E2BD4C989EB41B60A6DC6CA8D29522F2431EA11@EXCHMBX.hq.nac.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011, Alex Rubenstein wrote:

> And we have yet to see what happens with backend transactions between 
> private institutions that have large blocks laying around, and them 
> realizing that they have a marketable and valuable thing. We may all say 
> it won't happen, we may even say we don't want it to happen, or that it 
> shouldn't be allowed - but I'm a realist.

Be a realist.  A private market in IPv4 leasing is inevitable.  The RIRs 
won't/can't prevent it.

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