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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Independent space from ARIN
Dave, > 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 interne t > > > 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 ;-) (in a shameless self-promotion) there was a paper written a while ago by myself, Paul Resnick and Steve Bellovin on the topic of charging for IP addresses: Rekhter, Y., Resnick, P., Bellovin, S., "Financial Incentives for Route Aggregation and Efficient Address Utilization in the Internet", Coordination the Internet, MIT Press, 1997 Yakov.
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