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Re: Market-based address allocation
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 16:54:20 -0500
Bill Nickless wrote:
The issue is that it's just plain smart for large providers to buy all the space up if they can. Businesses are into making money. When they can, they will monopolize a market.I'm confused--are IPv4 netblocks so valuable that we can't expect the market to set a reasonable price, or are IPv4 netblocks (sets of integers) so worthless that they're not worth the trouble of trading at all?
Most commodities cannot be saturated. You don't buy all the oranges in the world and then maintain ownership until the end of the world. The next year, everyone will produce more oranges. Even money is replenished, and how much is in circulation is governed by the corresponding government.
IPv4 address space, while adequate to currently meet our needs, is limited. The reason it is adequate is because we do require justification. Take away justification and put on a $ value, and the big money makers will buy it all, lease it out to people at variable rates, and watch the money roll in. Never underestimate greed. It's the foundation of business.
-Jack
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- Market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Jack Bates (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Scott Bradner (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Steven M. Bellovin (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Jack Bates (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Jack Bates (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Simon Lyall (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation bmanning (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Jack Bates (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation bmanning (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 30)
- RE: Market-based address allocation David Schwartz (Apr 30)
- Re: Market-based address allocation David G. Andersen (Apr 30)