[162536] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "It's the end of the world as we know it" -- REM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Apr 24 13:27:15 2013
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA+qj4S_KoSeEyM3Tnr-pQp0R09f-eftH27MJuv6SfygMhuhvzw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:26:49 -0700
To: Andrew Latham <lathama@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 24, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Andrew Latham <lathama@gmail.com> wrote:
>> A demand curve would show that as prices increase, there is demand =
for fewer IPv4 addresses.
And the other side of the coin: where there is demand and excess supply =
(e.g., allocated but unused addresses), the price increase would create =
an incentive to sell off the excess (i.e., what we're seeing in the IPv4 =
trading markets).
> Totally agree, your point is the larger issue at hand, just pointing
> out and ugly issue that I witnessed recently. Corporate networks and
> ASNs totally off and not in use. But don't worry, they will use them
> if someone tries to take them away.
Or they'll sell/lease them. The prospective address consumer then can =
figure out whether paying the buy/rent price for new IPv4 addresses =
makes sense compared to moving to IPv6+translation or buying (more) CGN.
Regards,
-drc
