[89263] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Mon Mar 6 09:03:40 2006
In-Reply-To: <OFA37A6E83.7969614B-ON80257129.00340EE2-80257129.00345F06@btradianz.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:03:22 -0500
To: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mar 6, 2006, at 4:32 AM, Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com wrote:
>
>> Sadly, many of the folks who are involved with ARIN are sadly short
> sighted
>> in this regard. They dismiss both the idea of an address market
>> upon v4
>> exhaustion and the idea of clear title to address blocks.
>
> I can imagine a similar scenario in the boardrooms
> of Exxon et al. A young executive suggests that gasoline
> prices should be raised to $20 per gallon because
> reserves are dropping. The seasoned executives glance
> nervously at the unknown Russian oil reserves and the
> huge Canadian oilsands reserves and wonder what would
> happen to that plan if huge new supplies suddenly
> entered the market.
>
> Let's face it, IPv6 is close enough to IPv4 that any
> attempt to put a price on IPv4 addresses will simply
> cause a massive migration to free and plentiful IPv6
> addresses.
>
Or a freeing up of hoarded or unused IPv4 addresses. That's one thing
spot markets are pretty
efficient at doing in times of scarcity.
Regards
Marshall
> --Michael Dillon
>
