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>>> 3) What's wrong with treating assignments
like property and setting up a market to buy and sell them? There's plenty of
precedent for this:
>>> Mineral
rights, mining claims, Oil and gas leases, radio spectrum.
>>> If a given commodity is truly scarce,
nothing works as good as the free market in encouraging consumers to conserve
and make the best use of it.
>>>
>> I think you're
dead-on there, but you forget who you're really trying to convince. It'll
happen eventually but in the meantime the greybeards who were
>> largely responsible
for the Internet as we know it (and who by and large still
wield significant influence if not still stewardship) will be dragged there
kicking
>> and screaming from their
academic/pseudo-Marxist ideals, some of whom seem to still resent the
commercialization of the Internet. It's also hard to see
>> the faults in the system when you
are insulated by your position as member of the
politburo.
>>
>> The flip side of
the coin of course is that if you let the free market reign on IP's, you may
price developing countries right off the Internet which I don't think
>> anyone sees as a
desirable outcome. There's sure to be a happy middle ground that people
smarter than I will figure out, and maybe it takes a silly lawsuit
>> such as this to kick things
off.
>>
>> Andrew Cruse
>
> Another somewhat
important point is that we also need to conserve routing
entries. If you make a market for addresses without regard to routability,
you risk
> creating a situation where you flood
the world with /32's. No thanks.
>
> Tony
I would think that would
tend to police itself. Even now with things as they are you're going to
have serious reachability problems if you try to announce anything smaller than
a /24. And if routing tables suddenly explode, I'd expect that threshold
to quickly move in
reaction.
Andrew
Cruse
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