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Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () cs columbia edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2008 07:33:53 +0000
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 08:23:53 +0100 Eliot Lear <lear () cisco com> wrote:
Steve,Yah. A market exists today, though it's perforce sub rosa. An interesting operational question is how to prevent deaggregation as a result of a market. If, say, a company isn't using half of its address space, could it sell that half, to several other parties? Can that be prevented by market means?This is a strong argument for regulation of the market. A regulated market could provide liquidity needed by those who would otherwise find <unregulated> means to accomplish their ends (such as making private deals that are perhaps undetectable).
I have no problem with regulating markets -- I tend to think they work better that way. (He ducks, fending off the attacks of maddened libertarians...)
It provides an incentive for people to do the right thing, assuming the cost of doing so is not prohibitive (a big assumption if ever there was one).
That's something the market will do very well: balancing the profits against the cost of renumbering. --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
Current thread:
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit, (continued)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit michael.dillon (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Owen DeLong (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Lee (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Rod Beck (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Brandon Galbraith (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Rod Beck (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit michael.dillon (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Eliot Lear (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Steven M. Bellovin (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 19)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Geoff Huston (Feb 19)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Rod Beck (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Iljitsch van Beijnum (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Rod Beck (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 18)
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- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Tom Vest (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit Raymond Macharia (Feb 18)
- RE: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit John Lee (Feb 18)
- Re: IPV4 as a Commodity for Profit David Conrad (Feb 18)