[57617] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Independent space from ARIN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Apr 15 00:41:47 2003
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 07:39:48 +0200
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
In-Reply-To: <3E9B1955.FF2A6F3E@rogers.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>Brandon Ross wrote:
>
> > The solution to the problems posted in this thread about ARIN is fairly
> > simple. It's time to deregulate the IP address market and convert to a
> > free market approach to allocating IP addresses. If address space could
> > be bought and sold on a free market you would no longer have to justify
> > your address space to anyone, saving untold amount of resources and costs
> > pulling these reports together. Of course, address space wouldn't be
> > wasted the way it is today by organizations that hoard it, or by companies
> > that go out of business because it would make sound financial sense to
> > sell what you don't need.
I am sure Microsoft would love to have this implemented. For them to drop,
say, $5b and buy up all remaining available IP address space is no big
deal. Then, anytime you boot up Win/XP2 you would be assigned an IP
address from their pool (MS/DHCPv4) so that you could work on their new
IP/XP2 network which used to be called the Internet. Of course every time
you boot, your credit card would be debitted $1.
After implementing IP/XP2 and amassing a war-chest of about $80b, I had
heard they were interested in buying up initially all phone numbers in the
United States since phone numbers should be converted to a free market
approach.
-Hank
