[89256] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Mon Mar 6 06:18:16 2006
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 13:17:40 +0200 (EET)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0603061051230.30836@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Let's say we put a price of $1 per year per IP address you want allocated to
> you. For the people really using their IP addresses according to current
> policy, this is nothing. For the people with historic allocations (/8 for
> instance), they would really have to think if it's worth $16m to keep that
> /8. Most likely scenario is that this would free up a lot of IPv4 address
> space.
>
> If this causes migration to IPv6, well, so be it. I seriously doubt it, only
> thing I think would happen is that we would free up IPv4 space and it would
> live longer.
I'd love to see something like that (even better: charging by what
you advertise).. but unfortunately, I don't think it'd happen, and if
it did, I guess the main folks benefiting would be lawyers.. :)
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
