[757] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: IETF questions -- Internet growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank T. Solensky)
Wed May 29 16:16:17 1991
Date: Wed, 29 May 91 10:25:15 EDT
From: solensky@animal.clearpoint.com (Frank T. Solensky)
To: dklein@pueblo.att.com, emv@ox.com, steve@cise.nsf.gov
Cc: com-priv@uu.psi.com, ietf@isi.edu
(From Ed Vielmetti:)
> I'm trying very hard to get a handle on what fraction of the
>registered .com domains are directly on the internet, what fraction of
>the registered .com domains are listed on the stock exchanges, and how
>these commercial numbers have changed over the years.
This may yield a low estimate: the company I work for is registered
with the NIC but not the NYSE.
(From Stephen Wolff:)
> There have
>however been some wrongthink suggestions to base the charge on the "value"
>as defined apparently in terms of scarcity. Just what we need: a scalpers'
>market in class A net numbers; or, "I bought the last three privileged port
>numbers; make me an offer!"
Reminds me of a comment by Craig Partrige -- the price could be based
on a stock trading model. We could call this the IP Options Exchange.
(From David Klein:)
> ... I have to say our internal registry ... has been working quite
>nicely..
My mail may have come off more critical than intended. I don't know
exactly when AT&T had received the 256 Class B net numbers, but assume that it
predates IP subnetting. If another similarly-sized organization were to apply
today, they probably would get a Class A net number and assign subnet numbers
much in the same sort of way your internal registry works.
-- Frank Solensky / Clearpoint Research
