[147150] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP addresses are now assets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Fri Dec 2 18:05:59 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <12129.1322866577@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:01:56 -0800
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 2, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Dec 2011 12:37:29 MST, joshua sahala said:
>> the speculative market exists and is growing, why do certain factions
>> of the community keep trying to pretend that it doesn't?
>=20
> I'm sure at least some of those factions pretend it doesn't because =
admitting
> it does would be a game changer. I'm sure that *somebody* has a =
business model
> that assumes the non-existence of the speculatie market. And =
everybody knows
> that you never admit the business model is crap until *after* the IPO. =
;)
>=20
I admit it exists, but, I think it is currently relatively small and =
would hate to provide
it any additional incentives to grow. I think it has the potential to be =
very harmful
to the IPv4 internet in general. As long as it is relatively small, it's =
like a mosquito.
Turning it into a B-17 would be bad.
Just my $0.02.
Owen
