RE: Independent space from ARIN

["Kris Foster" <Kris.Foster () telus com>]

Was this tongue in cheek?

I am not an economist, but this is a sure fire way to destroy the internet
as we know it today.

Kris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Ross [mailto:bross () sockeye com]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 4:20 PM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Independent space from ARIN
>
>
>
> The solution to the problems posted in this thread about ARIN 
> is fairly
> simple.  It's time to deregulate the IP address market and 
> convert to a
> free market approach to allocating IP addresses.  If address 
> space could
> be bought and sold on a free market you would no longer have 
> to justify
> your address space to anyone, saving untold amount of 
> resources and costs
> pulling these reports together.  Of course, address space wouldn't be
> wasted the way it is today by organizations that hoard it, or 
> by companies
> that go out of business because it would make sound financial sense to
> sell what you don't need.
>
> ARIN (and the other registries as well) could still exist and 
> function as
> a central repository (think of a title registry) of 
> information about the
> current ownership of address blocks.
>
> -- 
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