[147408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Fri Dec 9 14:09:10 2011
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <CB07955B.497B3%fmartin@linkedin.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 11:07:55 -0800
To: Franck Martin <fmartin@linkedin.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
> I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific =
area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their =
business the way they would like=85
>=20
> This is just a data point.
We're going to be hearing a lot more of these. It's the nature of finite =
resources, and of human nature when faced with them. At some point, this =
will find its way into courtrooms under the rubric of a barrier to =
entry. It already has in terms of antitrust when a company wanted to =
move its PA prefix to different upstream.
