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RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
From: "Buhrmaster, Gary" <gtb () slac stanford edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 14:21:43 -0800
ARIN/IANA/whatever should have had the stones to first put a large amount of pressure on the legacy class A holders and then take them to court. Declaring defeat before any action is taken is not a reasonable course of action.
Not naming names, but I recall one member of an institution of higher education stating at a meeting that from their (his?) perspective, they would give up their class A only if they calculated that the cost of defending against any potential lawsuit (which they expected they would win) would exceed the cost of renumbering (and they had done a back of the envelope calculation that it was in the millions to renumber). This is a clear profit and loss point of view. Why change voluntarily if there is no profit to be made? We can all talk about "the good of the community", but true altruism is rare (although we all want to see it in others).
Current thread:
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit, (continued)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Joe Maimon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 19)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Buhrmaster, Gary (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Curran (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Eric Brunner-Williams (Feb 19)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Raymond Macharia (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 20)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit michael.dillon (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Leo Vegoda (Feb 19)