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Re: Market-based address allocation

  • From: Bill Nickless
  • Date: Wed Apr 30 17:40:35 2003 
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, [email protected] 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?


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