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Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)

  • From: Pekka Savola
  • Date: Mon Mar 06 06:19:53 2006 
On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
Let's say we put a price of $1 per year per IP address you want allocated to you. For the people really using their IP addresses according to current policy, this is nothing. For the people with historic allocations (/8 for instance), they would really have to think if it's worth $16m to keep that /8. Most likely scenario is that this would free up a lot of IPv4 address space.

If this causes migration to IPv6, well, so be it. I seriously doubt it, only thing I think would happen is that we would free up IPv4 space and it would live longer.
I'd love to see something like that (even better: charging by what you advertise).. but unfortunately, I don't think it'd happen, and if it did, I guess the main folks benefiting would be lawyers.. :)

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