[89207] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoff Huston)
Sun Mar 5 14:59:14 2006
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 06:43:28 +1100
To: Brandon Ross <bross@internap.com>,
Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
From: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
Cc: 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: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0603031542260.5631@localhost.localdomain>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 07:43 AM 4/03/2006, Brandon Ross wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Marshall Eubanks wrote:
>
>>I will bet anyone reading this $ 20 USD right now that what will actually
>>happen is the development of a spot market in IPv4 address space.
>
>That's a sucker bet.
>
>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).
There is a lot to agree with in this statement, but also perhaps more to do
that just that - how to support such a market such that uniqueness of
current control over address resources is clearly demonstrable is
necessary, but so is coherence of transfer of such control between
consenting parties. I _think_ you are referring to some form of title
registration or similar instrument that could support such a market - yes?
cheers,
Geoff
