Re: Market-based address allocation

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <5.1.1.6.2.20030430155224.039bbde8 () pop mcs anl gov>, Bill Nickless w
rites:
> At 04:45 PM 4/30/2003 -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > See http://www.research.att.com/~smb/papers/piara/index.html for a
> > paper on the subject.  (We held a BoF at the IETF many years ago; there
> > was sufficient pushback that we didn't pursue the question.)
>
> I just *knew* such an obvious idea couldn't have been mine alone.  :-)
>
> When did you present your paper?  The last reference I see is 1996.

I believe that that's right.  It was at the Telecommunications Policy
Research Conference.
> What sort of pushback did you receive?  Perhaps the experience of the past 
> few years might suggest revisiting the question?

Apart from the evil notion of money polluting the Internet -- this was 
1996, as I said -- I think I'll refer you to the archive that David 
Conrad mentioned.  It's been a long time, and I don't remember all the 
details.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
                http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)