Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

[David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>]

John,

On Oct 1, 2007, at 9:15 AM, John Curran wrote:
> At 3:55 PM +0200 10/1/07, Phil Regnauld wrote:
> >         I don't think you need government taxing for that.  I think
> >         that the IPv4 trading market we're about to see appear
> >         will resolve that issue very quickly.  Either you can afford it, or
> >         you can't.
>
> What happens if folks can somehow obtain IPv4 address blocks
> but the cumulative route load from all of these non-hierarchical
> blocks prevents ISP's from routing them?

Presumably, the folks with the non-hierarchical address space that  
might get filtered would have potentially limited connectivity (as  
opposed to no connectivity if they didn't have IPv4 addresses).

Regards,
-drc