[85523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 news
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Ross)
Thu Oct 13 09:56:35 2005
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:56:07 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>
To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <OFD8850DAE.BEA8F25A-ON80257099.002F6E2C-80257099.002FDF52@btradianz.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
> I'm sure that there will be a frantic scramble, but I don't
> expect it to last long enough for an IPv4 black market to
> form.
There's already a black market in IPv4. I've seen plenty of offers to
"buy" address space through various underhanded schemes. Most take the
form of creating a shell company that the space is registered to and then
the buyer "acquiring" that company.
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