[58164] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Market-based address allocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ferriby)
Fri May 2 06:40:23 2003
From: "John Ferriby" <john@ferriby.com>
To: <Michael.Dillon@radianz.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 06:39:13 -0400
In-Reply-To: <OFF7271527.2C64B9B4-ON80256D1A.00360A5D-80256D1A.0037F93A@radianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> All the right-to-use
> certificates would need to be registered with an RIR to validate them in
> the same way that land ownership is registered in a land registry office.
Fast forward to 2013: Will we have something akin to title insurance (and
logically title searches) for address space? I hope ARIN's historic records
are better than those in the domain space.
Is the long-term liquidity introduced by ipv6 going to affect the
marketability?
Legacy assets are more often valued at a premium: Manhattan, IP Swamp space,
.com domains, low-value ICQ and apparently even 4-digit ASn. Will IPv4
space
be valued at a premium over IPv6 space?
Sure it's 'just an integer', but it is an exclusive right-to-use some
mutually
agreed identity and that _has_ value. Intangible assets have values placed
on
them all the time.
I wonder what/how PT Barnum would do...
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