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RE: Independent space from ARIN
From: Dave Israel <davei () algx net>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 16:47:07 -0400
On 4/14/2003 at 16:33:34 -0400, Brandon Ross said:
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003, Kris Foster wrote:Was this tongue in cheek?Nope.I am not an economist, but this is a sure fire way to destroy the internet as we know it today.Why is this so hard to believe? Real estate is mostly a free market, and that seems to perform pretty well for the most part. How is address space that different? Please explain how you believe this would destroy the internet.
There's a lot more available real estate than available v4 address space. That's the biggest one. Second, groups that make the Internet go aren't necessarily the ones who can afford the address space. Third, there's no root owner of the address space, so who is going to sell it? But really, you just need the first one: small space. The relatively small pool means that a large company with lots of money could buy the whole ARIN chunk of the Internet. Speculators would probably buy address space and leave it unused, much like they do for domain names. Address space would have to be bought and sold on arbitrary borders, resulting in massive fragmentation of the tables. On the good side, address-based lawsuits would revitalize our flagging litigous economy ;-) And I agree with what others are saying: It would kick IPv6 into high gear. I'm not sure that's a good thing, however. -Dave
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- Re: Independent space from ARIN, (continued)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN bdragon (Apr 15)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Dan Hollis (Apr 15)
- RE: Independent space from ARIN Mark Borchers (Apr 15)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Bradley Dunn (Apr 15)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Jeff McAdams (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Stephen Sprunk (Apr 14)
- RE: Independent space from ARIN Brandon Ross (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Brandon Ross (Apr 14)
- RE: Independent space from ARIN Dave Israel (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN Yakov Rekhter (Apr 14)
- Re: Independent space from ARIN bmanning (Apr 14)