[58096] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Market-based address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Nickless)
Wed Apr 30 17:39:20 2003
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:36:03 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Bill Nickless <nickless@mcs.anl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030430154348.019cb0f8@pop.mcs.anl.gov>
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At 03:43 PM 4/30/2003 -0500, Jack Bates wrote:
>Without mandating necessity, I'd also point out that there would no longer
>be IPv4 address space available except at outrageous prices for smaller
>networks that wish to multi-home and have their own netblocks.
At 02:10 PM 4/30/2003 -0700, bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
> Oh... sorry, are folks really seriously wanting
> to treat integers as a marketable commodity?
I'm confused--are IPv4 netblocks so valuable that we can't expect the
market to set a reasonable price, or are IPv4 netblocks (sets of integers)
so worthless that they're not worth the trouble of trading at all?
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