[89187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Sat Mar 4 22:32:08 2006
Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 14:00:50 +1030
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>,
Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>,
Kevin Day <toasty@dragondata.com>, Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>,
NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <05814304-7DB0-4420-BD83-A840985C7D1C@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Fri, Mar 03, 2006 at 09:50:55PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 3-mrt-2006, at 21:43, Brandon Ross wrote:
> >What's worse is that unless people start changing their tune soon
> >and make the ownership of IP space official, this will be a black
> >market (like it is now, just much bigger).
>
> But that will end as soon as interdomain routing is protected by
> certificates given out by the RIRs.
No, it'll end as soon as those certificates become mandatory.
Which will, in my humble estimation, happen at some point near the
year 4523.
("Hey, guys, you're all using these CIDR blocks which have real
monetary value, how about you all agree to deploy this technology
which will make them all valueless again? Huh? Hello? Anyone
listening? Where'd everyone go?")
- mark
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