Re: Market-based address allocation

[Bill Nickless <nickless () mcs anl gov>]

At 03:43 PM 4/30/2003 -0500, Jack Bates wrote:
> Without mandating necessity, I'd also point out that there would no longer 
> be IPv4 address space available except at outrageous prices for smaller 
> networks that wish to multi-home and have their own netblocks.

At 02:10 PM 4/30/2003 -0700, bmanning () karoshi com wrote:

>         Oh... sorry, are folks really seriously wanting
>         to treat integers as a marketable commodity?

I'm confused--are IPv4 netblocks so valuable that we can't expect the 
market to set a reasonable price, or are IPv4 netblocks (sets of integers) 
so worthless that they're not worth the trouble of trading at all?


===
Bill Nickless    http://www.mcs.anl.gov/people/nickless      +1 630 252 7390
PGP:0E 0F 16 80 C5 B1 69 52 E1 44 1A A5 0E 1B 74 F7     nickless () mcs anl gov