[8100] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Class "B" forsale (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R. Conrad)
Mon Mar 10 00:20:25 1997
To: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu, davidc@apnic.net
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Mar 1997 20:08:13 EST."
<Chameleon.857961741.jtk@monet.titania.net>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 00:52:29 +0900
From: "David R. Conrad" <davidc@apnic.net>
Hi,
>If the transfers are not honored then they will have no value.
True. For address space to have value on the Internet it must be
a) globally unique
b) accepted for routing by an Internet service provider
Requirement (a) is met by any address allocated by any of the
registries, regardless of whether the registration information
corresponds to reality or not. Requirement (b) is where things get
interesting.
>The crunch in IP space can be drastically reduced if the horded
>addressed where returned to the pool for use by those that need
>them.
1) what IP space "crunch"?
2) what incentive do you propose to give to encourage people to
return address space to the pool of "usable" addresses? Given
that they have not done so already, it is safe to assume "for
the good of the Internet" is not sufficient.
>Commerce can not function without law.
Nit: commerce functions quite well without law (as any drug dealer
will tell you). It does however need a consensus of behaviors among
buyers and sellers, although those behaviors need not to conform to
those of the rest of "society"...
Regards,
-drc
