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Re: Market-based address allocation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@karoshi.com)
Wed Apr 30 17:06:53 2003

From: bmanning@karoshi.com
To: david.conrad@nominum.com (David Conrad)
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 14:10:03 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, nickless@mcs.anl.gov (Bill Nickless)
In-Reply-To: <12E68BF4-7B4E-11D7-B0B2-000393DB42B2@nominum.com> from "David Conrad" at Apr 30, 2003 01:55:28 PM
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


> 
> 
> On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 07:44  AM, Bill Nickless wrote:
> > As a thought experiment, think of how the IPv4 addressing situation 
> > (bogon advertisements, allocations, explosion of routing table sizes, 
> > etc) would be different if the IP community treated IP addresses as a 
> > commodity.
> 
> PIARA, The Sequel.  Take N+1.  Action!  Anybody got any rubber balls 
> Peter Lothberg can monopolize this time? :-)

	I still have mine, plus the five or six I took away from
	the others in the room.  ...  psst, buddy, want to buy an
	"8"

> Sorry to be flip.  In case you haven't already, see: 
> http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/piara/index.shtml

	Oh... sorry, are folks really seriously wanting 
	to treat integers as a marketable commodity?

> 
> Rgds,
> -drc
> 


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