[89269] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Mar 6 10:25:31 2006
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 09:25:00 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake <Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com>
> 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.
You assume that there will be a source of free and plentiful IPv6 addresses.
AFAIK, none of them are rent-free, and they're not even available unless you
have the clue and resources to prented to be an LIR.
So, unless there's policy change, most end-user orgs will have no choice but
to pay the market rate for IPv4 addresses. Spot markets are good when
demand is elastic, but we're faced with a market that has growing inelastic
demand that will outstrip fixed supply in a decade. Capitalism doesn't
handle that well.
S
Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart
CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with
K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
