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Re: Allocation of IP Addresses
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso () cisco com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 11:42:20 -0500
[excessive cc trimmed] At 04:17 AM 3/14/96 GMT, nelson () crynwr com wrote:
And it gets worse -- just WHAT is the meaning of "owning" an IP address. Hell, I could claim to own all the class A addresses (in fact, I actually do -- I've just never asserted my claim [ yet -- you'll be hearing from my lawyer]). An IP address is just an entry in a database, without the cooperation of all the backbone providers. So AT&T buys all the addresses; everyone laughs at them, and starts up another Internet in parallel with AT&T's, and puts a network address translator between the new Internet, and AT&T's old Internet. See?
No, I don't 'see'. Most of the discussion that has been held on Paul Resnick's 'Suggestions for Market-Based Allocation of IP Address Blocks' seems to imply that once IP addresses are economic commodities, then they will indeed be 'owned' in the traditional sense, much the way one buys or sells a used car. I'm of the opinion that this approach is seriously flawed, in that it almost encourages those entities with deep pockets to hoard address space. Any amount of fairness is removed from the equation altogether. I'm sorry -- I can't agree with this model, but hey, that's just me. Perhaps others vehemently agree, perhaps not. In any event, I believe that some economic incentive is indeed appropriate; perhaps the route [prefix] charging model will be the prevailing method, but that is for the providers to determine, not for the IETF. - paul
Current thread:
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses, (continued)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 13)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses David R. Conrad (Mar 13)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 13)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 14)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses bmanning (Mar 14)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 14)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Scott Mace (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Jeff Young (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Paul Ferguson (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses nelson (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Brian Brown (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses @NANOG-LIST (Mar 14)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Owen DeLong (Mar 14)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Paul Ferguson (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Owen DeLong (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Randy Bush (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses @NANOG-LIST (Mar 14)
- Re: Allocation of IP Addresses Paul Ferguson (Mar 14)
(Thread continues...)
- RE: Allocation of IP Addresses Jim Fleming (Mar 13)