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Re: Market-based address allocation
From: David Conrad <david.conrad () nominum com>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 13:25:45 -0700
Daniel,So, lets say we go ahead a float IP address space and anyone can buy whatever prefix they think need and have the cash for.
What happens to the routing tables?The reason the BOF back in '96 was entitled "Pricing of Internet Addresses and Routing Announcements' was that the folks who seriously considered the idea realized that in the IPv4 CIDR world we live in, selling address space without somehow tying those sales into some sort of market for routing prefixes was a recipe for "fun", or at least lots of prefix length filters and subsequently more unhappiness.
If someone can figure out how to get the ISPs of the world to participate in a routing prefix market, then it might be worth revisiting this idea. Note that there is nothing stopping establishing a routing prefix market now, so it could be done prior to changing address allocation policies.
Rgds, -drc On Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Daniel Golding wrote:
Treating IP space as a commodity is no more strange than trading financial options or other derivatives, or, for that matter, intellectual property.Bits, numbers, and agreements all hold value outside of the context of purely physical property. Sadly, this sort of idea tends to stomp on the socialistic sort ofidealism that is particularly prevalent amongst some in the IETF and NANOG communities, who feel it would leave out the "little guys". I suspect thatany real world float of IP address space would result in a pretty lowprice per ip address, if the market was sufficiently liquid. It might be cheaper for a little guy to get a few $K together for IPs, then to build anetwork capable of "justifying" a /20 from an RIR. Maybe ARIN should reinvent itself as a mercantile exchange? - Dan On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 bmanning () karoshi com wrote:On Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 07:44 AM, Bill Nickless wrote:As a thought experiment, think of how the IPv4 addressing situation(bogon advertisements, allocations, explosion of routing table sizes, etc) would be different if the IP community treated IP addresses as acommodity.PIARA, The Sequel. Take N+1. Action! Anybody got any rubber balls Peter Lothberg can monopolize this time? :-)I still have mine, plus the five or six I took away from the others in the room. ... psst, buddy, want to buy an "8"Sorry to be flip. In case you haven't already, see: http://www.apnic.net/mailing-lists/piara/index.shtmlOh... sorry, are folks really seriously wanting to treat integers as a marketable commodity?Rgds, -drc
Current thread:
- Re: Market-based address allocation Daniel Golding (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Eric Gauthier (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Eric Gauthier (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation David Conrad (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Stephen J. Wilcox (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Daniel Golding (May 02)
- Internet core scale and market-based address allocation Sean M . Doran (May 05)
- Re: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (May 05)
- Re: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation bdragon (May 05)
- Re: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (May 05)
- Re: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation bdragon (May 05)
- RE: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation David Schwartz (May 05)
- Re: Internet core scale and market-based address allocation bdragon (May 10)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Bill Nickless (May 01)
- Re: Market-based address allocation Eric Gauthier (May 01)