[147411] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sad IPv4 story?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Fri Dec 9 15:48:28 2011
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <4971DF7F-09FC-42C0-98A9-F3C60FF146D1@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 14:47:06 -0600
To: NANOG Operators Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Dec 9, 2011, at 1:07 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Franck Martin wrote:
>=20
>> 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.
>=20
> 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.
+1 to Fred's comments. Hopefully, the existence of an open IPv4 address =
market will help avoid some of the worst. (At least for a while, until =
the rising prices get too high for a competitive environment. And maybe =
by then the price of IPv4 addresses will have made IPv6 deployment a =
much more obvious choice to reluctant CFO-types.)
Cheers,
-Benson
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